I’ve eaten roadkill badger and squirrel, but dolphin? No thanks | George Monbiot

Unlike Arthur Boyt of Cornwall, I'd never have dolphin on the menu in my house, no matter how it died. Here are my personal guidelines on such matters

There's been no end of speculation about the palaeolithic diet, and most of it is nonsense. There's a simpler description of what our ancient ancestors were likely to have eaten than the precise diets on which various mountebanks insist: whatever they came across.

This would have varied greatly from place to place and season to season. The remarkable saltmarsh excavations at Goldcliff on the Severn estuary provide us with a few glimpses of how the mesolithic hunter-gatherers who lived there some 8,000 years ago might have survived.

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