>>you have the idea that it is un-paleo for *any* animal to
>>eat grains... This is mistaken.

>But didn't Paleolithic Period end... with the
>advent of agriculture and the growing of grains?

Ack!  "Eating" grain, as in walking through a meadow and stripping seeds
off the tops of the grass, is not anything like planting 200,000 acres
in one single grain that is genetically identical to itself all over the
world and constitutes 50 percent of what everyone eats.

Of course it is paleo for chickens to strip seeds off the heads of
mature grass.  It's probably paleo for people to do that, also, but
think about what a tiny percentage of overall diet that would be for a
human who is just wandering around looking for food.  Fat roots and
plump mice would be much more appealing to them, I imagine!

Patty