My ancestors ate a diet heavy in meat, butter and cheese starting about 7,000 years ago. They weren't the first to keep sheep and cattle for food, but they were the first farmers to do so. They're usually called the Germanic peoples, which by the way make up about half the ancestry of modern-day Italians, Spaniards and Scots -- and a larger fraction of the ancestry of the other Western European countries modulo Ireland.
So, I don't think the experience of people whose ancestors have been heavily reliant on rice for the last 4 or 5,000 years and until recently didn't have much access to meat is particularly informative for what I should eat.
So, I don't think the experience of people whose ancestors have been heavily reliant on rice for the last 4 or 5,000 years and until recently didn't have much access to meat is particularly informative for what I should eat.