At 12:24 PM 12/30/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi Everybody,
>I love pemmican and raw meat, however I believe that beef (and any animal
>that is grain fed) is giving me a gluten reaction. I have found a local
>supply of wild meat but it is expensive. How can I live the paleoway on a
>budget?
>
>Thank you in advance.
>All the best,
>Susan
>
Dear Susan,

I agree with you one hundred percent.  Grain is fed (stuffed into) almost
all animals. The only gluten free protein  exception that I can fit in my
budget is to get some ocean fish like cod, which I assume gets no grain!

The prices on wild meat are astronomical. I even checked with a taxidermist
and yes he gave me some once but I feel awkward continuing to beg it off of
him. (It is against the wild game laws for me to pay him for it)

I am in the exact same boat as you are.

I like paleo and agree with Ray's theories. However, I am finding myself
slipping out of frustration (nothing to eat!) Sometimes the grain fed  meat
even makes me itch.

I think the only way to get gluten free meat would be to become a hunter
gatherer oneself and believe me I thought about it, but how and when, I live
in  a huge metro area.

Does anyone else notice the grain/gluten in the beef and other meats?

There is one mom on the autism list who has her child on a wild game diet
which she buys from a legal wild game  purveyor, her food  budget runs into
the  thousands.

There is some grass fed beef out of Colorada, I need to buy a freezer for
this, will try it after the holidays are over.This beef would be too
expensive for you, Susan, with the current exchange rate of the CDN dollar.
Maybe there is some grass fed beef available somewhere in Canada?

Moira