> jean-claude- I have nothing but the utmost respect and admiration for you
and
> your chosen lifestyle. Very, VERY few of those of us brought up in the
> "civilized" world would ever be able to make the transition to the kind of
> instinctive eating that you survive, and indeed, thrive on.
>
> Just a bit of curiosity though- why do you consider yourself to be a
> vegetarian if you eat ants, termites, and seafood?

i used to be for 12 years  before i decided to try the instictive diet 14
years ago .In that context i could not ignore my attraction to eat meat ,
despite my previouslly held beliefs .

 And do you have friends and/or
> family that share in your lifestyle? If not, I imagine you may at times
feel
> lonely and isolated.

Yes it have been a pattern . EVen when i was living in France where there is
many who eat that way ( relativelly speaking) i started this diet on my own
in a remote village of the pyrennes, too  far for being able to enjoy the
services of the "instincto" coop who deliver undenatured foods to europeans
.It helped me in fact to look for what undenatured foods were available in
my environment , learned about wild plants. wild animals  . Same thing
happenned when i moved to the west coast of canada ,i was among a handfull
of peoples in all north america who ever heard of that diet .I had to learn
to get undenatured foods directlly from my environment, or what was  left of
them  in stores in north america .( so little few at the time  ). Me feeling
lonelly and isolated goes also  me being able to have radical different
choices from the rest of the familly or the rest of the world and stay
strong in it ( harder than i imagined as i learned ).
Now i share this diet with my 2 childrens.
>
> Although I, like many others on this list, could not bring myself to eat
> insects, I am sure they must be a very healthy food source, (certainly
very
> Paleo.) and I congratulate you highly!

I have a dilemma , my wife got convinced that we needed to kill the ants in
our house as 2  differents friends of her have to take apart their
respective houses because of the damage they have done. ...I found so
practical to be on the coach reading to my children while  harvesting those
huge winged ants crawling on us ...... ( the season for them to fly away
from the nest ).

jean-claude