"T. Martin" wrote:
>
> Caryl Wattman wrote:
> >
> > What Mindy suggests about organic meats is what I thought, too, until I found
> > out that most organic meat, like most meat anywhere, is grain fed.  It doesn't
> > make sense to me that it's okay to eat grain that has become flesh when we
> > aren't to eat grain for our own flesh.
>
> Why not? We aren't to eat grasses and leaves either (which we would probably
> find indigestible, and from which we can't get much nutrition, being unable
> to breakdown cellulose), but paleo hunters can eat animals which eat these
> things.
Perhaps Caryl wanted to say that we shouldn't eat grain fed flesh from animals
who themselves haven't adapted to eat grain (hope I am not putting words into
anyones mouth here). Cows in nature don't consume much grain and they have
major health problems on a grain rich diet. Some believe that both meat and
milk from grain fed cows is different (e.g. casein in milk is similar to
gluten in structure, or at least more similar than casein from grass fed
animals). I don't have a reference for this, and don't even know if a good
one exists (would love to see one though).

Ilya