At 09:53 AM 6/9/97 -0400, John Pavao wrote:
>Milk is digestible? I thought it was a foregone conclusion of paleodiet
>that it is not? Or is it digestible, but just unnatural for a human to
>consume? I know if I get a hankering to get constipated, milk will do it!
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>John Pavao
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>If raw milk is allowed to simply rest in a container after it comes
>from the cow, it will first turn to sour milk, which tastes similar
>to yogurt and is delicious. After a while, it will then separate into
>curds and whey. The curds are often called clabber. Put the curds in
>a bag of cheese cloth to drain and you will soon have a soft cheese
>called farmer's cheese. All edible, and all predigested with very
>little effort on anyones part. I think we all know what happens to
>pasteurized/homogenized milk when *it* sits around at room temp. for
>a while ( or perhaps in someones stomach)!
Thanks for your response, John. It made me think a lot about the self-
digesting process that goes on with raw milk.
First of all, there is no comparison between -raw- milk, and the watered
down Elmer's glue found in your local super market. Raw milk goes through
a series of self-digesting processes, all of which are edible by people
who are able to tolerate it. Some people will get indigestion, some will
become very ill and some will thrive on it. Not everyone is fully adapted
to it, apparently because it is a recent innovation that grew out of the
necessity to feed growing populations on dwindling resources (reindeer or
whatever was the precursor of cows and such). Under primitive conditions,
it wouldn't take long for those who could not adapt to die out and for
those who -could- , to multiply. Soon everyone would be adapted. As long
as the group remained isolated, the adaptation would continue to become
fine-tuned, providing conditions remained fairly stable.
Our situation in the modern world, violates the requirements for successful
adaptation. Natural selection no longer keeps us well adapted to our
environment, since drugs and surgery keep us alive beyond our natural time
of death as dictated by our ability to adapt, and we eat food we are not
adapted to due to our transportation systems. As a race, we are eating
ourselves to death and killing ourselves with kindness.
And then Ray Audette had a stroke of genius: go back to where we -all-
started from and eat what we're -all- adapted to. End of problem.
Also, end of my rambling.
Aloha
Al (from the Big Island)
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