On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:17:15 -0700, Geoffrey Purcell  
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> I tend to agree with Loren Cordain who pointed out that eggs, in the era  
> before agriculture/domestication, would have been a rare treat, not a  
> staple of the diet.
Actually, eggs would have been a seasonal treat, not necessarily rare:  
spring to summer.
Seabird eggs are a seasonal staple for people who live in the far north. If
you foraged for a living, you'd probably have a very good idea of where  
birds nests
were, and when you could steal some eggs.

If those of us with egg sensitivities had only eaten eggs "in season" we  
might
not have gotten the egg sensitivities.  And of course if we would have  
avoided
wheat, we could have avoided loads and loads of problems :-)

	Lynnet