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Andrew Shelley <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:31:45 +0100
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> the only adavantage that can be atribuated to cooked foods is to allow to
> eat what we could not eat before in the raw state . is it really an
> advantage ?
> the argument that say it improves survival chances is simply starting with
> the asumption that life is a struggle


Life is a struggle. If you don't eat sufficient energy, you die. This has
nothing to do with diet choice - it's called physics. Insufficient energy
content will kill you quicker than any other form of nutritional deficiency.
This remains true irrespective of whether food is abundant or not.
Excepting predation, all animal populations grow in number to the limit of
their food supply. Any initial state of abundance can only be temporary.


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> and that without cooking we could not makes it as a species
>


If cooking offers a survival advantage, its a foolish person who ignores it.


>
> and that we improve our condition by doing so .
>

It is better to be alive, in less than optimum health, than to be dead because
of our refusal to compromise our diet beliefs.

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