Pet: > Clara's namesake Adelle Davis was she who dwelt on raw calves' >brains; CMD said ALL organs were cooked for safety, nor, as you say, >was there a sign that brains were preferred. So was Adelle lying or refering to other experiments which were never published or...??? > Raw and raw sour milk were most preferred along with fruit. Milk >made up 16-40% of calories overall and 0-64% of calories in a meal; >fruit was 10-41% overall, bone marrow (cooked or raw) 5-26%. > Pasteurization had been in effect since about 1908 as a >'temporary' measure against brucellosis and other cattle ailments >affecting humans, till the herds could be culled. Since culling is >unprofitable, we still pasteurize. The hospital used Grade A raw >milk for infants. > CMD's study was unprofitable, so, though it replicated a study >from the previous decade, it seems no bigger study followed. >Now R&D is even more fragile, and both research and peer review >are influenced by grant source and size, and tailored more to focused >industrial-military-pharmaceutical use. Thanks for the clarifications. > Cutting boards-- a Michigan(?) professor and graduate student did >a low-budget study to show the superiority of plastic over wood >cutting boards, and found to their surprise that wood killed bacteria >much better. Excited and tenured and able to carry on unfunded, they >elaborated the experiment. Hypotheses were discussed in American >Scientist; I don't know the final explanation. Desiccation? Love it! > Liza May, mango and cashew are cousins. Don't try the peel; it's >an irritant to all but the most purified instinctos, whose parasites >will eat the toxins and make it Awww Betta. LOL > <alcoholics KNOW they are addicted, like cigarette smokers> >Have you heard the libertarian sloganeering from Big Tabac about >Those Who Choose To Smoke? Denial is not an Egyptian river. > <until now I have never gotten a single word of acknowledgement> >I've noted your ideas, but tend to forget that nods and mm-hmms don't >show here. She's exaggerating anyway--I sent her, as I remember it, a _single_ word of acknowledgement ;) > List X is not only distinguished by tolerance of NFL (as one who >takes in strays and loves the ugliest, I understand), but it's often >much funnier than this one. You ever check out the calorie-restriction list? > I am becoming more certain than ever that Raw Food Is Poison! >Anyone care to write a solemn tract on the subject? Pet Not really, but if you write it in an obscure language and get somebody to translate it into english I will hork the whole kit 'n kaboddle and try to become rich and famous. And if those addicted raw-food-eaters try an get in my way, I'll _bash_ em ;) Cheers, Kirt