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>BTW, I'd also like to make contact with an Instincto in the Washington, DC
>area.  I want to do an experiment to see if the famous 'stop' on any
>particular fruit or veggie will disappear if I trot out a higher Brix item
>of the same produce.

I am curious to know what you are intending to demonstrate by doing this
experiment. What are the possible interpretations you will make >with the
different outcome. i will like that you checks the answers in yourself
before starting and will be curious to know myself too.
Having 10 years of instincto practice , i could allready give you the answer
.
After experiencing the stop on low quality food i will be more likely to go
for more with an higher quality item.( if the difference in quality is very
important between the 2)
i am often insatisfied if the food is not high in liveness and nutrients. It
is why i am becoming more unattracted to commercials organic produce and
more interested in the food grown thru the naturel way of farming( no
tilling...) or wilds.
the stop in "dead" produce is not very clear ever and have a tendancy to eat
them till i will got the luminous phase with them ( that never happens )
i have the feeling that the nature and meaning of the instinctive stop is
widely misunderstood.
and misused . Having the key  doesn't make the door  ,open , closed , or
safe. One have still to do the necessary job to 1st : use it, 2nd obey the
indications if that door can or cannot be open,
The instinctive stop doesn't guaranty in itself that one is eating
instinctively, it just give the opportunity to a willing ,humble person to
do so.
jean-claude
>This Instincto stuff is fascinating.  It reminds me of an on-farm
>experiment of some years ago.  A farmer was trying to determine which of
>several competing mineral-based soil-amendments to buy.  He used some of
>one material here and some of another there.  At the end of season he
>shucked the corn, put various piles of the 'different' corns in a pen, and
>turned the hogs loose.
>
>Yeah, he had a video camera (sorry, but all farmers aren't technologically
>backwards).  He filmed the hogs and piles every day.  First, one pile
>disappeared.  Then another went away.  Each pile was eaten until it was
>gone until, finally, the pile of corn from a field that received NO
>treatment was left.  I'm sure I'll still catch hell if I say, IMO, the hogs
>'grudgingly' ate that last pile.  Anyway, the farmer showed the video and
>added, "I know which supplement *I* bought."
>
>Sure, there are as many questions here as answers.  One troubling point, at
>least to me, is that grains tend to fatten animals.  Was the 'better' corn
>simply more addictive?  Whatever the answer to that, I can tell you that
>other farmers mineralize only a portion of a pasture (as an experiment) and
>routinely report the cows will stay in the treated portion until the grass
>is completely gone.  They will then move to the untreated portion.
>
>No Peter, I do not know the answers.  I'm a student.  I use a refractometer
>because it helps me visually see what my degenerated sniffer and taster
>aren't so good at.  Quality does matter and its a handy tool to help me get
>my share of the good stuff.
>
>Regards,
>Rex Harrill
>BTW: the 'macro nutrients' (calcium, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium,
>and, according to some, sodium) need to be in a particular 'balance' for
>best (think healthiest) vegetative growth.  That balance, reflected in the
>plant, seems to be best (think healthiest) for the animals eating thereof.
>
>Even as the listproc here sends out the next few messages, feed labs around
>the country are *testing* feed samples from various farms.  Even as the
>posts on this list are being debated, farmers and their feed consultants
>are comparing actual test results to various mineral interrelation charts
>to see where they are getting too little AND too much of various macro &
>micro nutrients.  I insist that trying to understand human nutrition
>without understanding animal nutrition is fruitless.  (A pun, guys, a pun)