History of Agriculture

Just got back from what may be the best class I've ever taken... History of Agriculture, taught by this awesome German guy, Dr. Fischer.  He seems like a really great teacher, and the course material is incredibly interesting.  I already read the first article in our required readings entitled "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race", referring the adoption of agriculture as that mistake.  For many people, the idea that agriculture was a mistake may seem just stupid, and impossible.  But this is something that I've been thinking about for a while, and this article has only further convinced me that agriculture may actually have been a mistake.  Most people who know me probably know that I believe in a paleolithic type of diet for optimal health, and this is certainly in line with that belief.  You may be able to find the article online if anyone's interested, the article is by Jared Diamond, I highly recommend it.  Here's a quote from it I found noteworthy...

"Archaeologists studying the rise of farming have reconstructed a crucial stage at which we made the worst mistake in human history. Forced to choose between limiting population and trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny."

So that topic will be the start of this class, and we will move through the history of agriculture up to the present.  I love history and I love food so this will be awesome.  Buono serata!