Craig Coonrad wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Phosphor wrote:
>
>> since aborigines buried some fruits and monkeys and birds eat
>> over-ripe and hence fermented fruit, alcohol is pretty paleo from my
>> point of view.
>
> I'd have to disagree. All one has to do is look at the
> correlation between the amount of time a culture has been
> exposed to alchohol, and the incidence of alcohol addiction and
> alcohol related problems.

You are failing to make the important distinction between very modest
paleolithic consumption of alcohol from natural fermenting fruits found in
nature, and the massive consumption of alcohol after humans learned to make
wine, beer, and then (much later) distilled spirits.

-gts