Elsie Steinwachs wrote:
>
> >>On the contrary, I think calling modern farmed animals "very" different
> >>from their paleo counterparts is an understatement.
>amount of genetic drift could occur among humans as among the
> short-lived animals.
>
> Also, since beginning to keep animals, humans have deliberately changed
> those animals drastically,

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Animals may have been changed by selective breeding but for the most
part can quickly revert to wild. Roaming packs of [previously]
domesticated dogs are not uncommon and are good, fearsome, pack hunters.

Domestic cats have been abandoned on islands [not to mention New York
City] and quickly revert to hunting and cat-life behavior.

Horses, escaped from ranches and farms, form wild herds who manage well
in isolated areas and revert to the horse-life herd behavior.

I think the much vaunted 'breeding' and domestication  is a very thin
veneer indeed and so quickly discarded that it would seem to hardly
have made any impression whatsoever. That goes for humans too...clever
monkeys, at best is all we are. A fraction more of frontal lobe than our
close relatives the chimpanzees.  [Doesn't always work either.]

 So I think that all the talk about paleodiet etc is *very* valid since
we are very little different from the ancestors. Whether the meat is
**exactly** the same as ur-meat, or has the same exact type and
proportion of fat is IMO much less important than the overall category
of MEAT...close enough is good enough to the bod.

     Mb different people have adjusted better to the higher carbohydrate
diet  [grains and sugar] [this was discussed at length some time ago]
and mb some bodies just haven't made the switchover yet and  do better
on meat. I am one of those, as are many Native Americans, Inuit, Pacific
Islanders, all of whom were around a long time, healthy, and energetic
enough to spread over large areas of the globe. Their recent fall into
diabetes and other such diseases is a direct consequence of the dietary
change.

 If change were so easy and rapid we should all have changed within a
few years to tolerate the present diet. Not happening!!!
People are heavier and sicker in growing numbers and it is happening
earlier in life. No adjustment there!

 Reverting to the diet appropriate for barely-to-not-at-all altered
humans makes the only sense to me.

yoyo