On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 09:57:34 -0400, Todd Moody
<[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Amadeus Schmidt wrote:
>
>> As we learn't from Loren Cordaine, red meat as it occurs in nature
>> (out of the arctis) is unsuitable for human consumption.
>> Because the protein amounts become toxic.
>
>Actually, Amadeus, that isn't exactly what we learn from Cordain.
>What we learn is that the in many climates animal foods *must* be
>supplemented with energy from plant sources.  This is not at all
>the same as saying that red meat is unsuitable for human
>consumption.

You are right, of course. Just red meat *alone* is.
Well - I admit, I said this to cause a little thinking about the
difference
of paleo meat and meat of today.
>From the one (agro-meat) you can eat as much as you want.
>From the other (paleo meat), you have to fear that rabbit starvation.
More different than it looks at first blush.

Alas, with paleo-veggies it's similar. Today's veggies are also rather
modified. Mostly also in the direction energy-dense.
Roots and tuber seem a good savannah tip. Ben's (ex.?) favourites.
Where can we find things like this?
http://biology.uindy.edu/Biol345/LECTURE18/diggingstick.htm

You once mentioned that quinoa was biological a fruit.
Could you tell where-from?
Now I read, that pumpkins actually are berries.
Big berries.

Amadeus