{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Mike Dilger ☑️ wrote","author_name":"Mike Dilger ☑️ (npub1ac…9p35c)","author_url":"https://yabu.me/npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://yabu.me","html":"The average human gets 20% of their calories from wheat.\n\nanother 16% from rice\nanother 13% from maize\n\nSo far all starches! And that is HALF the diet!\n\nImagine a plate, and half of it is wheat, rice, and maize.  Every meal like that. Every person like that.  Wow.\n\nanother 8% from soybeans\nanother 5% from sugarcane (probably as white sugar)\n\nMore carbs!\n\nThat's already 63% of the human diet.\n\nYes, 63%. I rounded the above numbers. Why are you checking my work? Don't you trust me?\n\nNext is 3.8% from pig meat.  Finally some meat!  The total meat will be more than 7% once we count it all.\n\nImagine those carnivore diet people.  Fuck 7%.  They are at 100% (I suppose?)\n\n3.1% from rape and mustard seed (probably as canola oil)\n\n2.1% from potatoes (more starch!)\n\nWait... people get more calories from canola oil than from potatoes!?\n\n2.1% from barley (more starch!)\n\n1.9% from poultry meat.  Finally some more meat, but this so far adds to 5.7% meat.  I hope there is more...\n\nFinally we get to 1.8% from all other vegetables combined.\n\nSo those recommendations that say your plate should be 1/2 vegetables.. I guess they didn't consult with the food growers of the world first.\n\n1.7% from sugarbeet (as more white sugar again!)\n\n1.5% from groundnuts (is that peanuts?)\n\n1.4% from sorghum (I'm not even sure what sorghum is)\n\nand then 1.4% from bovine meat... Our meat total is now up to 7.1%.\n\nThat's the end of the list.  Everything else was too small to count.\n\nHistorically a number of other crops have made up large portions of the human diet such as:  Rye, Jerusalem artichoke, Cassava, Sweet Potato, Parsnips, Broad (Fava) beans, and Squash / Pumpkin.  Did I miss any?  I'd like to know if I did.\n"}