From: Jerry Stegenga <<Are you saying that our Paleo ancestors had spices and the casings to make sausages, and of course the knowledge.>>


sausage making and meat processing probably began when mankind learned that salt is an effective preservative.... thus, meat that could not be consumed fresh at slaughter could be preserved... 

natural casings are the [cleaned] intestines of the various four-legged animals used for making the sausages.

Dedy