Actually, I make "pemmican" without technology...by using ground beef high
in fat (raw) with dried fruit- usually cherries, blueberries or
cranberries. Just grind it all up and then dry it out.
I do little balls and then flatten them. They make great travel food.

How would that require technology?

I don't like to cook anything if I can avoid it.

Louise

P.S. Luddity is a spectrum not an absolute.

>> actually, i bet you *could* make pemmican without technology, but it would
>> require a great deal of time and effort.  but you certainly couldn't post
>it
>> to this email list without technology :)
>
>Actually, Todd is correct. At the very minimum, domestication of fire is
>required to render the animal fat required to make pemmican. Domestication
>of fire and subsequent cooking techniques derived therefrom are forms of
>technology. As Ray says, if our evolution presupposed the domestication of
>fire, we'd have Bic lighters for thumbs.
>
>Troy G.
>
>PS- Why would a Luddite join an email support list?
>