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Wally Day <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 12 Mar 2000 10:29:21 -0800
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Subject: Re: What's up with these eggs?
>
> jean-claude,
>
> > Was your question  not a true question that you
> allready made your mind
> > about it ?
>
> Of course it was a real question. Are you suggesting
> that people who pose a
> question to the group are required to forfeit their
> right to think and form
> their own opinions? :)
>
> > >Where do we draw the line?
>
> > that is the thing ,there is no line , there is
> only a learning process
>
> It seems you are avoiding my question. I would like
> to know where you would
> draw the line.
>
> It is your opinion, as I understand it, that these
> Eggland eggs are not
> suitable to a paleo diet because the hens are not
> allowed to eat bugs as
> hens would do under paleo conditions. So I must ask
> you the next question:
> what if we fed bugs to the hens, but the bugs were
> raised on a
> vitamin-enriched non-paleo diet? Would you then
> reject the eggs of hens who
> ate bugs who ate a vitamin enriched diet? How many
> steps down the food chain
> do you recommend we go? Where do you draw the line?
>
> Personally I like these Eggland's Best eggs because
> like most paleo dieters
> I am interested in finding ways to get more Omega 3
> in my diet and these
> eggs have three times the Omega 3 found in ordinary
> eggs. That additional
> Omega 3, among other things, makes these eggs very
> suitable for paleo-eaters
> like me.  What is wrong with my reasoning?
>
> I think there is nothing wrong with my reasoning
> unless one is more
> interested in form than substance. I agree that
> these eggs are not in the
> exact *form* of paleolithic eggs, but I note also
> that eating them in place
> of ordinary eggs can help me meet the *substance*
> requirements of a
> paleolithic diet.
>
> > i see a trend in our devolution ...
>
> I see smart egg farmers using science to enhance the
> nutritional composition
> of the egg. I applaud them for their effort. I am
> glad to see that the US
> patent office awarded them a  patent, as this gives
> them the economic
> protection they need to bring their product to a
> wider market so that more
> consumers have the opportunity to choose
> nutritionally enhanced eggs. I see
> this development to be evolutionary, not
> devolutionary.
>
> -gts
>
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