Vegetarian, Vegan and Animal Rights

Inspection of coproliths at paleo excavation sites have shown that no only were they largely (but not exclusively) vegetarian, they ate anything that wouldn't poison them and a little that did, eating bark, grasses and other low quality food in lean times as well as a huge variety of lower quality foodstuffs in good times. They ate grubs and insects as much of the non vegetarian diet. Meat was very rarely eaten.

I'll believe the Paleo diet people aren't a joke when they dine on foods that were considered too nutritionally low quality to be farmed plus some nice fat termites and tree sap instead of going to the supermarket and floating through the produce and meat aisle like they're doing Something Important.

Honestly, if you want to see how they ate, go stay with the bushmen in the Kalahari for a few months. They're still largely living that way, although they do use civilized foodstuffs when they can afford them because the native diet is quite poor in many nutrients.