>Maybe so; maybe not. Wild living animals eat cooked foods (forest fires, >steam vents, etc), how often can this happen once in a life time? >frozen foods (all along the snowline in both hemispheres), Species who evolved on the temperate climates do but it is not what they favor and it is not a main source of foods The humans ocupation of thoses regions are not so old >mix foods (wadging, going back and forth between foods and >often not eating their foods in instincto-like sequence), even have been >seen to dip foods into the ocean in an apparent effort to salt them. And >all animals seem to avail themselves of natural salt licks where ever >available. all those things are very much self limited and regulated for the other species ,only humans have a capacity now to make it a way of life. How much mixing can you pratically do without a salad bowl? . I personally at time mix diferrent greens while harvesting them but basicaly without the use of seasonning it is very much limited and when i enjoy arugula i take the time to harvest only that, leave by leave ( humans have an amazing tool to do that , their hands) despite that all my greens are growing together. I saw horses doing the same , sorting out grass when they want clover( their lips are amazing of ability to do that ) Note on the instincto sequence it is not necessarely a way of life but an important tool to reappropriate the instinctive response to foods, and it is the most aproximate model of natural food intake that i know. for all species . Animals travel a lot to look for a special source of food. Here when i walk thru the woods there is one place and time for nettles , one for miners lettuce , and one for Pigeon ( today i stole a pigeon that a crow was killing by pushing it in the water, he was eating it alive ,i had to kill it , my all focus was on the pigeon and had no interest to catch a crab that i saw going by or harvesting oysters that were there too. ) Instinctive approach is the antithesis of litteral interpretation of the guidelines. jean-claude