At 19:43 1998-12-05 PST, Rob Street wrote:

>Why is bacon paleo?  Eating uncooked pork can kill you; am I wrong?

Dont mix up things here! Things which are poisonous raw, or otherwise
impossible to eat in their natural state are not within Neanderthin.
Pork _sometimes_ has (had) parasites. That doesn't make it impossible to
eat, only risky. If it has trichinas nowadays or not, does not pay
any role to weather it is paleo or Neanderthin compatible. But if a hog
was impossible to hunt with stones/sticks (which is not true) then it would
be counted as not Neanderthin compatible.
Extra salt was not available to paleo man (apart from those living at
seashores) so salted (cured) bacon is not paleo, but fresh (not salted)
side pork is, according to my opinion.
Neanderthin regards food to be "allowed" if it follows the rule described
above, but Neanderthin is not the only approach to a paleo diet. No one
knows for sure which of the foods available today can be counted as
foods to which homo sapiens has evolved to be able to eat. Each one has
to get as much information as he/she thinks is necessary, and evaluate
this information and make conclusions.
I don't think he idea that a trial and error approach is possible to use,
as the "error" may show up only after many years, and then it is too late
to correct. That method can only be used, and has indeed been used, by
evolution itself, and that has taken millions of years.

- Hans