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Hi Kirt,
Nieft / Secola schrieb:
> Alan:
> >I agree with just about everything up there Kirt and am thus at a loss
> >to understand why you chose to write it. Maybe I didn't make myself
> >clear enough (although I thought I did).
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> You wrote:
> >It makes no difference as nuts are essentially seeds..and are
> >not meant to be eaten really (unless they use the "host" as
> >a means of propagating..and are thus indigestible if not chewed).
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> And add in this last post:
> >As to seeds, it is obvious to anyone that many seeds "send out a
> >meassage" that they should be eaten by providing delicious and
> >nutritious flesh (strawberries, raspberries, cranberries,
> >etc. etc...the list goes on and on). But these seeds want to be eaten
> >in order to propagate and the seeds themselves thus contain
> >enzyme inhibitors to make sure they are not digested. Thus chewing
> >and hence crushing such seeds will give you a digestion problem
> >with no other nutritional benefit.
>
> You are clearly attributing intent where none exists and that what the bulk
> of my response.
>
If the intent wasn't there Kirt (i.e. if evolution did not develop
food cycles, interdependencies and symbioses etc.) then there would be
no such things as jungles. Granted, many seeds propagate through the
air, but equally many (i.e. because they are too heavy or have evolved
other propagation schemes) depend on being eaten by animals, birds and
insects in order to propagate. A tree full of nuts would soon be overgrown
by other nut trees if all nuts merely fell to the ground and germinated
uneaten. If you doubt this then you had better start reading some Darwin
or study botany and natural history.
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> >Hope I have cleared this one up.
>
> Not really. Fundamentalist NH has been explored for years on this list, as
> has fundamentalist-most-anything. Edification or pontification--its a
> matter of one's point of view methinks.
>
Points of view are gained through education (i.e. both quotable research
and self-experimentation). If someone claims he or she feels better
after eating raw meat, for example, then there must be some proper
description of "feeling better" as well as some research to back this
up. After all, many people feel absolutely blissful after eating a
bar of chocolate etc..
Best regards,
Alan
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