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----- Original Message -----
From: Patricia E. Clark <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: [P-F] Food and the Handicapped
> >I suspect, from scores of research articles I have read (sorry I can't
> >locate them right now), that there would be no imperfect
> >humans--handicapped--if only there was the ideal paleodiet for all
> without
> >the dindang multinational agricultural and pharmacutical a--holes
> trying to
> >make our life so miserable as far as sex and race and all that other
> stuff
> >goes. Those wheelchairs are simply technology gone rampant on a
> "problem"
> >which wouldn't even exist if it weren't for Monsanto and it's role in
> >bringing in the Neolithic revolution where those camals now live.
>
> There is no such thing as perfect or imperfect in nature. There is only
> survival and the opposite -- extinction. So far, there have always been
> at least a few humans who survived whatever circumstances they were
> subjected to. So we are still here as a species. Genetic diversity is
> our greatest weapon against unknown future changes in environment.
> Genes recombine in new ways over and over, presenting us with new
> physical/physiological coping strategies.
>
> Also, are you aware of the Neanderthal skeleton found with atrophied arm
> and crippled leg? An old man, who had been protected and cared for by
> his clan in spite of his handicaps. And paleo, of course.
>
> Patty
> A Survivor
>
Compassion is a trait commonly displayed by carnivorous animals. Herbivores
are not so disposed.
Troy G.
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