Robert Kesterson wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:53:12 -0600, Bill Wilcox
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>> Actually, you don't eat 'only' meat. You eat the fat first, until
>> you are sated, then you eat the meat.
>
> I put meat and fat in the same category. I just mean paleo isn't
> animals only, to the exclusion of all plant matter.
>
>>> One look at our teeth compared to those of other carnivores would
>>> seem to indicate that we were not solely carnivorous.
>> Other carnivores have to kill with their teeth, we don't. ....
>> Our digestive tract is closest to that of a wolf, which is a carnivore.
>
> It seems odd to use our teeth to argue we're not carnivores while
> using our intestines to argue that we are.
I was trying to inject some humor with the fat / meat statement.
I was arguing that our teeth are not like other carnivores because they
do not need to be. Other carnivores have huge incisors out of
necessity. We have never needed them because we kill with our hands.