Todd Moody wrote:

> I think I agree with this.  There are people all around us, with
> normal-sized brains and great intelligence who are the products
> of a diet in which om-3 fats are quite scarce.  They don't eat
> fish; they don't eat veggies; they don't eat flax oil; etc.
> Whatever om-3 fat they get must come from the tiny amounts in
> grain-fed meats and grain-based foods.  I'm not arguing, of
> course, that this is a good thing, but it suggests that our
> bodies greedily harvest every bit of om-3 from our food and
> utilize it pretty well.


I agree to a certain extent with this statement. Not to be
rude to Amadeus the Vegetarian, but in my experience
vegetarians are easy to pick out of a crowd. Nervous, angry,
emotionally unbalanced, intolerant. Besides, I believe there
is some evidence linking lifelong vegetarianism (children of
strictly veg parents) to reduced intelligence. Amadeus hints
at such in his article. It does not take much O-3, but it
does take some.

Herbivoures get their O-3 from the vast numbers of bugs they
ingest along with their fodder, I suspect. We silly moderns
fastidiously wash these nutritious parts off.