Resent as I went over the 4 message/day limit. Ben

 Wally,
 I think AQUACULTURE may be the answer- I've posted this up on another list,
 but have been hoping to get more information before posting it up on
 Paleofood. It seems to me that the sea is more efficient at trapping and
 recycling the sun's energy than he land. There are a lot of aquaculture
 websites but I haven't found any mention of the actual yields achieved and
 how they compare to land. But, my gut feeling is that aquaculture has the
 potential to beat the pants off agriculture- and would also solve yet
 another problem for paleodoods. In fact, my gut feeling is that it may be
 inevitable for aquaculture to surpass agriculture, and as long as we didn't
 eat sea grains (if such exist) - and stuck to sea veges eg kelp plus
 shellfish and fish- then we would de facto change over to a paleodiet. Then
 all the marketing departments could start crapping on about their "new
 discovery" of the health benefits of seafood.

> Ben Balzer
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Wally Day <>
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> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 10:46 AM
> Subject: [P-F] Speaking of fish....
>
>
> > The life expectancy issue is an interesting one. Why
> > don't the statisticians also quote a "normal" life
> > expectancy - one which excludes infant fatalities and
> > accidental deaths? In other words, take all of the
> > deaths considered attributable to "natural causes" and
> > come up with some kind of median value? *That* would
> > be a much more useful number in my thinking.
> >
> > Now, on to fish. I think it's unlikely that a large
> > percentage of the population would ever go paleo, but
> > I can't help but wonder how they could all be fed if
> > it did happen. I doubt very much if we could feed them
> > all using range fed animals, so it would seem the
> > likely protein source would have to be fish. I wonder:
> > What kind of impact would replacing land animal foods
> > with seafoods have on the health of each individual?
> > Is it possible to "farm" fish without resorting to
> > feeding them grains? Or, is it possible to get enough
> > food directly from the ocean to feed that many people?
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