Ward:
>I just think it odd that the bulk of the evidence shows homo to be an
>omnivore, and we are plenty willing here to question the wisdom and dig for
>studies of those attempting an all-vegetarian diet, but not so inquisitive
>when it comes to an equal degree of critical scrutiny of the other extreme.

This is my take as well, Ward. Here on this list we have some people doing
well on a very high meat diet and it seems that such an extreme is becoming
the meaning of "paleo-diet". Let's put it this way: I can find plenty of
vegans who were in fine health for a time, certainly longer than a year.
Perhaps I could even find some with good blood stats to match--I don't know.

It seems, as Mr. Getty has implied, that the idealism and unwillingness to
look at couter-examples that so characterizes vegetarians is alive and
kicking in the carnivore diet (I am unwilling to call a paleo-diet much
more than 50% animal foods at present). Even on this list there have been
folks posting that such a diet wasn't working for them. And the venom
sometimes shown to Mr. Getty is telling as well. Is it simply a role
reversal: the skeptical vegetarian (former in this case) crashing the
mostly meat list and ruffling feathers with reasonable questions--as
opposed to the skeptical omnivore crashing the vegetarian list with
reasonable questions?

Cheers,
Kirt

Kirt Nieft / Melisa Secola
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