At 09:46 PM 10/22/98 -0400, you wrote:
>At 17:28 -0000 22/10/1998, Wade H. Reeser wrote:
>
>>I think it is a stretch to call modern animals "very" different and "very"
>>un-paleo.
>
>On the contrary, I think calling modern farmed animals "very" different
>from their paleo counterparts is an understatement. I suggest these animals
>are "unrecognisably" different.
>
<snip a bunch of stuff that says farmed animals have alot of fat!>

Would you follow this by saying that obese humans are "very" diffent than
non-obese humans?  In fact, would you state that obese humans are
"unrecognisably" different?  If not, why?  If so, this seems absurd.  Sure
obese humans are different but certainly well within the boundaries of
being normal, in the genetic sense.  The farmed animals have been
selectively bread for certain characteristics e.g. docile, alot of meat,
disease resistant, etc This does not mean they are unrecognizable or have a
physiology much different than their not to distant ancestors.  Dogs come
in all different shapes and sizes but still are "recognizably" wolves.

>I don't believe it's possible to eat a paleo diet unless you consume game
>animals. This is rather easy here in Australia, as kangaroo meat is readily
>available. In the U.S. I imagine game meat is available, but harder to find.
>I wonder if it is available at all in Europe?

Let's say you keep your fat intake around the 40% range using this fat laden
beef.  What's the problem?  Just because this greasy animal is dripping
with fat (yummmm!), doesn't mean ya gotta eat it all.  I don't.  I'm more
concerned with lipid profiles of the fat but I haven't seen anything that
get my panties in a twist.  Antibiotics and hormones are another worry but
I find it difficult to get an idea what's goin on and how much of a concern
this should be.  I say eat the corn fattened organic beef and have done
with it.

>Yours sincerely,
>Richard Archer.
>
>p.s. the data is from the USDA Nutrient Database.
>     http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/SR12/sr12.html

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