Sentences with phrase «before modern farming practices»

This was because, before modern farming practices, we did not have an abundance of food available to us at all times.

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Thus, universal characteristics of preagricultural human diets are helpful in understanding how the recent Western diet may subject modern populations to chronic disease: Before the development of farming and the domestication of livestock practices, dietary choices would have been necessarily limited to minimally processed wild plant and animal foods.