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Some animals hunt, most forage, each playing their roles, Layla and others make a strong case that the human primate’s nature and function within living communities is as forager. I’ve always intrinsically known I’m a forager. Look at my finger nails. These are not the sharp claws that slash open skin. These are the fingers made for picking berries and mushrooms. These are the hands for pulling up roots. Look at my teeth. These are not the teeth that rip chunks of raw muscle from bone. Our species has grown so very far away from itself that we can no longer even see our obvious nature right in our own bodies. This has nothing to do with morals, but who our biology, our being is. If we were meant to hunt, we wouldn’t need all the weaponry, or the rituals and indoctrination convincing our body and mind to behave outside its nature.

Read Layla AbdelRahim’s “Wild Children - Domesticated Dreams: Civilization and the Birth of Education”
Or her “Children's Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation: Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness”
Or listen to any of her youtube video presentations
Other Books:
Jim Mason’s “An Unnatural Order: Uncovering the Roots of Our Domination of Nature and Each Other”
David Nibert “Animal Oppression and Human Violence: The Vulnerability of Success”
Matt Cartmill’s “A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History”