Karl Mac Mc Kinnon wrote:
>         The only improvement on nature I've ever seen is pemmican.  The
> rest of the supplements are, at best, supplemental.  But pemmican is the
> closest there is to eating pure energy.  And do you know what happens to
> kids who eat pemmican on a regular basis?  I've heard stories of a 1&1/2
> year old terrorizing 4 year olds.  Of course, he was also gestated under
> paleolithic eating conditions to produce some sort of superkid.  At six,
> I bet he could bet most of the posters on this list in arm wrestling, and
> all of them on a vegan list.
>         The only difference between a worker termite and a warror termite
> is diet.  They are genetically identical.

First of all, you are one weird human being. I mean that in a really
good-natured, non-confrontational way, but dude, you are OUT there.

Having confessed my admiration, I must now point out the two informal
fallacies in your post. First, you're going from one story of
one kid to a claim about what happens to all kids who eat pemmican. This
is hasty generalization. Second, the implicit argument about termites
and nutrition is based on analogy, and an argument based on analogy is
only as strong as the analogy itself. I would question whether the
similarity
between termites and humans is sufficient to draw many meaningful
conclusions.


Toby