>
> Jean-Claude, do you think that if the many human groups that cook their
> food today, continue with this practice, then they will degenerate and
> become extinct in the future - just like some drug abusers apparently
> deteriorate and die off.

is it not obvious that humans are degenerating ( we just have to look at
tooth decay to
start with and the many other degenerative diseases that plague humans )?
and this trend is not new cooking was the firtst step , then overhunting as
a result then domestication of animals and agriculture ,then the spice and
new food craze with colonisation  ,  then industrial production of foods ,at
last overriding species barrier with GMO .
more and more remote from simple
wild foods regulated in quantity by  a natural context to complex mixtures
with completelly altered foods .

it is a trend , a continuum in forcing our instinctive barriers , it is
endless ,it is unavoidable .

new molecules created by cooking don't have the same level of toxity that
other hard drugs have it is a very slow process cumulating from one
generation to an other .

> Most folk I know eat cooked food and are not overweight. Some of them eat
> what I label as junk but they still are not overweight. People are not
> racoons in my opinion. Are you sure all the city racoons are weighty?

in humans there is other parameters than foods like specific to human stress
due to repressed emotions culturally reinforced that can burn out the
excesses in food . many unhealthy peoples like me never makes fat no matter
how much and how bad i was  eating .
But it is general in animals who have access to denatured foods like in zoo
or laboratories to get overweight , "wild" city animals are allways of the
bigger
size than really wild ones . raccoons as an omnivore ( eating mostly  humans
left over) even more so than a squirel
for ex .
>
> I hope you don't mind me asking but which variety did you eat? How much
did
> you consume? Did you chew it well? How much did your goat ate? How do you
> know he wasn't intoxicated afterwards?

ones that have been carefully tended by a drug addict in the woods in a park
, those 4 plants bigger than me in full buds have been discovered by my goat
while  bush walking close by , she got out of our way attrated by the smell
that is quite strong , she pushed the net away to eat the leaves i stop her
before she devastated the plants took 4 buds for me to taste . i loved it
same kind of strong medecine like eating echinecea or hop flower or other
potent herbs  , not something you will eat  in quantity ( just one bud at a
time ) but pleasant .

i chewed well and my goat ate the  whole outside of one side of one  plant
( a very big plant ). goats can handle lot of toxins way more than most
other herbivorous and she din't manifeste anything different than usual ( i
watched for it in her and me being curious ),if  i have had smoked what i
ate i
will have been in heaven ( from what other peoples who smoke told me . i
personally never smoked or took any other drugs that was my first attempt )
>
> >but it is true that eating raw you need less foods .
>
> Are you referring to all humans and each and every type of food?

it is a general tendancy very obvious among peoples eating instinctivelly
and less so in peoples eating complex raw cuisine . also fruits will give  a
tendancy for peoples to eat a lot of them more so than somebody eating one
meal a day of cooked paleo .
for me it is evident that i ate  way less when i switched from cooked grains
based vegetarian to instinctive eating diet and even less so when switched
from  raw fruits and nuts based diet to raw animal and vegetable  based diet
.

i allways been a very big eater but now i can be content with one pound of
meats one salad and 2 fruits a day . a big change from the past .
jean-claude