Jared Diamond Worst Mistake In The History Of The Human Race

Jared Diamond is… interesting.
The argument that Jared Diamond makes in his article, “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race”, is completely refutable. There is very little evidence in the article that makes sense, and most of it appears to be that Diamond just has a grudge against the laziness of the modern world. This is where Diamond and I agree. The modern world is incredibly lazy. We now live in a world where fast food is a food group, and technology is being used incorrectly, resulting in the overall decrease of brain capacity. But, technology has also created amazing advances in medicine, education, and increased the ability to learn. There is no reason to say that agriculture is the worst mistake and even if somebody wants
And while I agree that it is easier to be unhealthy in today’s world, it is also incredibly easier to be healthy. There are thousands of options for food in the world, and it is a person’s choice to be either healthy or unhealthy. It is a person’s choice to go to McDonald’s or to go to the grocery store or local market and buy their own food. In the article we read from Chris Otter , “Feast and Famine: The Global Food Crisis”, he mentions several times the affects that food has on America in particular. The malnutrition in our country comes from over eating. While both articles state that the world has a problem that involves rich countries overeating, and poor countries starving, that is still a choice of those countries, even the poor ones. They choose to export all of their goods and harvests to other countries in exchange for food. And while that statement can be argued and supported in a million different ways, that is not the point of this paper. The truth is that Diamond seems to be just throwing out one side of a given argument without even the slightest acknowledgement of the other. Malnutrition was around with the start of humans. There are bad foods in the world as they are. Fruits have tons of sugar in them, and a diet of just fruit and meat in ancient times could not have been great for them. Not to mention, most communities only really had one source of food, so they ended up eating a lot of the same thing. If you ask any doctor, nutritionist, or medical official, they will tell you that no matter what foods are being consumed; there is no health in eating the same thing over and over again. So if the ancient communities stayed relatively in the same areas for the majority of their lives, they would not have had as great of a diet as Diamond makes it out to be. Diamond even says that the modern “bushman” does not live the same way primitive beings did. To quote