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> I didn't know there was such an overlap of Paleo people with Natural
> Hygienists (raw food espousers).

it is not a surprise . natural hygiene look for a place where any medical
intervention becomes  useless ( by living hygienic life style ).Some natural
hygienists took the biase to exclude animal products but it  have not been
allways the case historically .


  I don't think raw is good when it
> comes to meat, for many reasons, and ESPECIALLY if you didn't just catch
> that wild game yourself (in which case raw is probably A-OK).  Today's
> meat has been sitting around long enough to become infected.  And fed
> wrongly, so it is infected easier.  If you want to eat raw meat, I
> highly suggest running after a wild pig with a spear, and eating it
> within hours of your kill.

only in the pasteurian paradigme . there is many evidences that presence of"
harmfull " bacterias doesn't equal with symptoms .

Pasteur himself recognised its mistake on his death bed ( after he became
famous for imposing the germ idea ) :<Bechamp avait raison , le microbe
n'est rien c'est le terrain qui est tout .>

Also the experience of many peoples eating bacterias infested meats (ripe  )
prove that it is mostly  harmless .
i have been doing it for 14 years and i have yet to see a problem .



And even then you will get tricinosis
> parasites.

it is such a rare occurence and there is better protection that sytematic
cooking of all meats .
again presence of parasites ,.bacterias or viruses doesnt mean you are going
to develop symptoms ,most of the time nothing happen.
it is like saying i am not going to swim at all in any case  because 3
peoples got attacked by sharks last year in a very specific circonstance


>
> I have been reading the palentologist technical published papers, and
> from what I see, humans have been cooking for probably about 380,000 -
> 465,000 years (newest finds in Menez Dregan site in France).  That's
> much longer than the 50,000 year speciation time (Richard Dawkins), so I
> think we have adapted to it.  Even more conservative estimates have it
> at 230,000 to 300,000 years ago (Terra Amata site).  These sites found
> actual hearths!  We could have been roasting over fires even earlier,
> but there would be little evidence of that left.

no matter how old is the first fire pit , ( that doesn't mean sytematic
cooking either ) the fact is that even very recently some ,hunter gatherers
were still eating their meat raw without harmfull effect .

you have 400 000 years of support for eating cooked and others have the
entire  evolutionary time as support for eating raw .

jean-claude
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