Tom: > One of the claims that one hears in raw foods is that if grain is cooked > before being fed to animals (usually mentioned: pigs), the animals will > gain more weight than if the grain is fed in the raw state. Supposedly > this an argument against cooked food? I really don't remember the precise > point of this example. So, I thought I would ask the lists - see if > anyone remembers what is so bad about the pigs gaining more weight on > cooked grain, than on raw. Anything diet that makes some people (or animals) overweight must be wrong. But diet is such a complicated thing, it is hard to know exactly WHY people become overweight. Consider: 1) Many overweight Americans eat a low fat, high carb diet and however do not lose weight. 2) Vietnamese people eat a low fat, high carb diet (a lot of rice) and are on average much thinner. 3) Whatever the repartition of macronutrients, no raw food eater has a serious problem of excessive weight. Best wishes, Jean-Louis