> -----Original Message-----
> From: ... Ashley Moran
> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 10:29 AM

> .... It certainly used to be true, because by growing grains you can feed
> an army.  But there was a failed attempt by either the US or UK army
> once to feed troops on pemmican (it failed because they didn't
> understand there was a 2-week period of withdrawl when cutting out
> grains etc).  A pemmican fed army would be healthier, fitter and more
> effective than a grain-fed army.

I'd be interested in any further info you have about that. I have this:


MAY USE WHALE MEAT IN THE ARMY RATION
Peary Advises Pemmican Made From It and Goethals Is Considering the
Suggestion.
Special to The New York Times.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B0DE7D8113FE433A25757C0A9
659C946996D6CF
".... Pemmican is the sine qua non of every Arctic ration. It is the only
prepared meat food with which I am acquainted, that men at hard work in the
field at low temperatures can eat twice or three times a day, three hundred
and sixty-five days in the year, keepin the best of health, and have the
last mouthful taste as good or better as the first.

It is the most concentrated and compact food that I know, as well as the
most satisfying and sufficient. ...."


"[Pemmican] was tested as a survival food by Vilhjalmur Stefansson (perhaps
Dr. E's favorite low-carb author) under a grant from the U.S. Army during
the 1930s[.] Ironically only the Luftwaffe used it for this purpose during
WW II." --Ray Audette,
http://www.proteinpower.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-3361.html

Subject: Re: Extended fast 
From: Ray Audette 
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 22:38:59 -0800 

<<Stefansson wrote much about eating nothing but pemmican and conducted
several studies among military draftees prior to WWII.  Doing so results
in the same effect as juice fasting or total diprivation - almost
complete removal of intestinal flora.

I suggest drying 10 lbs. of meat into pemmican and then eating nothing
else until it's gone!  Unlike other methods of fasting, your metabolism
won't fall and you won't experence any nutritional deficiencies.  You can
actually work out while you fast!  If you have adjusted to this fast when
the first batch is done, make a second batch and continue.  You can
thrive this way for months (and it certainly makes food selection and
preparation easier)!

Adkins has a similar "plateau buster" called the fat fast.  Very few
people ever try it.  A pemmican fast is in many ways easier.>>

Ray Audette

Subject: Re: Let's ask Ray 
From: Ray Audette 
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 04:41:06 -0700 

<<.... Stefansson went for almost 60 years without eating any vegetables at
all.
He also showed in his research for the U.S. military that pemmican (raw
meat and fat)would correct vitimin defeciencies such as scurvy and
pelegra.>>

Ray Audette



"Our rations consisted of Pemmican, a kind of dried meat, Horlicks tablets
[dried malted milk] and water." --2nd Radio Officer Frank McLaughlin - RMS
Empire Rowan 1943 Coast of Algeria,
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Runway/9601/FrankmcLaughlin.html


Pemmican
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
<<.... 
Boer War
In Africa, biltong [dried, vinegared beef] was commonly used in all of its
forms, but during the Second Boer War (1899-1902), British troops were given
an iron ration made of four ounces of pemmican and four ounces of chocolate
and sugar. The pemmican would keep in perfect condition for decades, even in
sacks worn smooth by transportation, and thus it was considered much
superior to biltong. This iron ration was prepared in two small tins
(soldered together) which were fastened inside the soldiers' belts. It was
the last ration pulled and it was pulled only when ordered by the commanding
officer. On this a man could march thirty-six hours before he began to drop
from hunger. The British Army Chief of Scouts, the American Frederick
Russell Burnham, made pemmican a mandatory item carried by every
scout.[4][5] 

....

4. Stefansson, Vilhjalmur (1946). Not by Bread Alone. New York: MacMillan
Company, 263-4, 270. OCLC 989807.  
5. Burnham, Frederick Russell (1926). Scouting on Two Continents. New York:
Doubleday, Page & company. OCLC 407686. >>