Actually, I am just realizing now that I've been eating raw *meat* throughout my life (various dishes in traditional Polish cuisine include it). The sad part is that it was mostly commercial beef meat. Yesterday was a day when I had an unprecedented craving for RAF. When I entered that fish market, I could have easily just grabbed a piece and ate it right there; I must have looked like a vampire looking for his first victim. Which brings to a little question for any instinctos out there (actually, I'll make that a *few* questions): Isn't this strong feeling of hunger (since instinctos do eat only when they're hungry, possibly *very* hungry) the reason why an instincto will eat just about anything? In other words, aren't they going overboard, in terms of how hungry they are or how long they go inbetween meals, and end up eating just about anything to satisfy that hunger afterwards? I mean, anyone is pretty much an instincto when they haven't eaten long enough. :) Also, since instinctive eating has everything to do with choosing the foods that are best for the person, what if the selection is very limited and there is no way of expanding it? In fact, what if the person has only a few foods to choose from and the instinct craves something else? SAy, you only have bananas and apples around you, and you crave RAF? Aren't you going against the instinct when you choose the fruit? Or do you not eat anything then (that'd be against your "survival" instinct I suppose). I also wonder, how do instinctos go about drinking water? Tap water tastes just as good when one's thirsty. Lastly, on raw fish, do you wash the pieces of raw fish (if consuming raw) before eating? I read somewhere that one shouldn't let the water get in contact with the flesh (changes taste). But the darn thing has been sitting on ice in the store, and I'm sure the salesman washes it before he sells it and packs it anyway. How do you deal with this issue?