ABSTRACT
The domestication of plants and animals is concerned with man going into the business of producing his food instead of hunting and gathering his food. The nutritionist is interested in this for three practical reasons: The first is that to know what man ate before he invented agriculture is to know his diet during the millions of years during which he adapted to a particular choice of foods. The second reason for the nutritionist's interest is that he needs to know what the pre-agricultural diet was in order to ascertain the dietary changes produced by the introduction of agriculture. The third reason for wishing to know what dietary changes followed man's domestication of plants and animals are that these may give clues as to the factors that determine man's choice of food. The first effect was the development of methods of food production, storage, preservation and distribution.
