At 05:13 PM 9/17/99 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 09/17/1999 2:26:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> All I know is when I used to eat gluten I itched and when I eat beef or
> lamb that is 'tainted' I itch.
> The cattle in Canada are fed by-products from the brewing industry which
> would include gluten from the barley. >>
>This shows that you now itch when you are exposed to something you have
>deemed "tainted"

I wonder if the original author ever tried an informal double blind
experiment to see if s/he itches after eating meat that has been fed grain,
but she doesn't know it and if s/he itches after being told certain meat is
grain-fed when it isn't.

perhaps I am naive, but I don't see how a gluten molecule can show up in
muscle.  does gluten pass through the intestinal wall??  I didn't think so.