On Thu, 24 Sep 1998 18:16:44 -1000, Nieft / Secola <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Amadeus:
>Perhaps your imagination is too modified by culture. Young chimps beg for
>brain from freshly killed animals. An obscure Clara Davis study found that
>raw brains are prefered over all other foods by weaning one-year-olds.
>.. with a delightful "baby-food" texture as well as lovely
>flavor.
>Your revulsion of brains as food is not shared by chimps or hunter-gatherers.
I think your're rhight here.
Still it's hard for me to imagine a 1 year old eating
brains..
I have eaten brain (of bavarian cow, i think) and was
not very fond of it. Yesterday I met someone claiming
that to have eaten well-tasting br
ain soup in the childhood.

>Beyond all that, Amadeus, your arguments fall flat because you have not
>(that you have mentioned) experimented yourself with important animal
>foods, like raw fat and organs from wild or naturally-raised animals.
I haven't tested beyond what I told you.
But- how should I should a grown-up test it?
What should happen I ate a raw deer brain?
Our brains *already* have the fatty-acid part in it.
It was built up in early childhood.
Adult brains don't grow anymore.

>There was a fascinating thread on the raw-food list a while back about a
>European raw vegan toddler (with many health problems) who prefered the
>snail (shell and all) to the lettuce it was found on. It is easily found in
>thearchives of that list if you dare.
Boy, this guy would do good in my garden ;-)
(just a joke).
My snails are likewise - the eat lettuce and dead snails.