# How much of your diet is accounted for by hunting and gathering?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 5, 2006, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-your-diet-is-accounted-for-by-hunting-and-gathering/351406 "2006-04-05T14:05:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-your-diet-is-accounted-for-by-hunting-and-gathering/351406/41 "2006-04-07T14:13:53Z")

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I live in an apartment in the city. I can’t afford to go hunting.

Not quite 0%, though, since my parents have pecan trees, walnut trees, berry bushes, and mulberry trees. I’ve never done any large-scale gathering of them, though. ☹

Things have been different, though. We used to go deep-sea fishing rather often when I was a girl, wrapping and freezing that of our catch we didn’t eat that day and eating it over the course of the next several weeks. I suppose we might have reached 5%.

I’m not sure if the shrimp we bought from the little neighborhood stand counts – THEY certainly harvested the shrimp from the Gulf, but I’ve never been on a shrimping boat in my life.

I’m always meaning to shop at the farmer’s market instead of my grocery store. It’s just such a long drive in comparison – fifteen miles versus three blocks. My budget is rather tight, so I can’t just spend all that extra cash to feel good about myself.

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**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-your-diet-is-accounted-for-by-hunting-and-gathering/351406/42 "2006-04-07T14:24:53Z")

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> [@Little Plastic Ninja](#):
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> Not quite 0%, though, since my parents have pecan trees, walnut trees, berry bushes, and mulberry trees. I’ve never done any large-scale gathering of them, though. ☹

Even still, harvesting nuts & berries from plants grown a plot of land that your parents own is plain old agriculture.

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