Jerry Story wrote:

>On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 10:38:01 -0700, David Karas <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>Jerry Story wrote:
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>>>Laurie Forti has an article about why instinctotherapy stinks.
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>>>http://www.ecologos.org/instinctotherapy.htm
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>>I don't think Laurie Forti has ever tried instinctive eating. He and
>>John Colman are totally against eating animal products. Can one count on
>>anything they say about instinctive eating? Anything that doesn't fit
>>their program is attacked as wrong.
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>Does "instinctive eating" include eating meat?  Consider. First the meat
>would need to be raw and unseasoned, otherwise it would be modified by
>"culinary artifice" and therefore not "original food". Is eating -raw-
>meat instinctive?
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I was a fruitarian and had just started eating raw tuna once a week when
I went to my first instincto class with Bruno Comby from France. He said
that one could eat instinctively as a vegetarian but he felt that most
people would add in raw animal products eventually. This proved true for
me. I do eat most my meat raw and unseasoned. I now age my meat and
allow bacteria to develop in the meat. I read Francois' reply to you and
agree with what he said. He has been more of an instincto than I have. I
would say that eating raw meat is instinctive.

>GCB's version of anopsology contains inconsistencies, as Laurie shows. But
>some of the main ideas are probably correct. The inconsistencies need to be
>ironed out.
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>GCB's idea of "taste change": That's wrong. Taste change does not mean
>enough; it means excess. It means that one has eaten so much as to cause
>sickness. It means gluttony. One should never eat to the point of a dramatic
>taste change.
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If you have been eating raw any length of time, you will have
experienced "taste change". I can remember eating raw unsoaked nuts and
thinking that I had found a bad one and tried another and it was bad
also. I stopped and when I went back to the bag later they were not bad.
This is my instinct kicking in. Any animal will eat what tastes best to
it when it has a choice. They "taste change" intensifies if you persist
in eating something that your body doesn't want. GCB gives an example of
this in one of his books. One of his examples is pineapple. I am able to
perceive the "taste change" very easily and never go to the gluttony phase.

>>Can one count on anything they say about instinctive eating?
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>I try to avoid counting on anything anyone says. I try to get the facts and
>think for myself.
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Good Plan. This is what I learned to do.

>Anopsology needs some more work on it before it is perfected.
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You can do your own perfecting. Much more fun that way.