Peter:

> What throws me off is that an animal in the wild supposedly is very
> attuned to its nutritional needs through its ancestry of sometimes
> millions of years of uninterrupted instinctive eating.  So when it
> encounters denatured food one would think that despite the fact that
> these foods taste delicious and give no taste stops that some natural
> intelligence in the animal would say, " hey this stuff might taste
> really good but it does not really satisfy my nutritional needs.

This throws me off too, Peter. I can easily be skeptical about my own
nutritional wisdom but not so easily about the crocodile's or the wild
birds' or even my cat's (who in most respects seems very wise indeed).

david
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