Hello Rundle!
If you look at my recent post "What is paleo?", you'll see there are (at least) two ways of understanding the word "paleo": food accessable through pre-neolithic tech and food agreeable to our pre-neolithic genes. If olives are agreeable, then a carefully considered and balanced consumption of an olive-based product which takes neolithic tech to extract efficiently would also be paleo (or "quasi-paleo"). In my opinion the gene interpretation is more significant than the tech interpretation, though dependent on it.
Erik F.

Rundle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
OK, I must admit this has been one [of several] bees under my personal bonnet re paleo eating... this one is about olive oil... simply put, when following a paleo style diet one tries to eat in a similar manner to our ancestors who lived BEFORE agriculture was 'invented'...
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