> Thank you, Jean-Claude!
> I hope I don't bore anyone with questions that have probably been answered
> 100's if times before, but I can't figure out why we can't eat peanuts
> (Monkey nuts). When you crush open the shell, using very light pressure
(no
> technology there) you can eat the nuts in their raw state so presumably
> Paleoman did the same. So why aren't they allowed? I read somewhere else
> that it's because they are considered by Ray Audette as a bean; but if a
> bean is edible raw why can't we have beans?


that is ray decision . for simplification he just excluded all grains and
leguminous plants despite the fact that paleo peoples had acces to
leguminous plants ( the familly is big and go from tiny plants to big trees
like carob or tamarind )

peanut have the disavantage for european descendants to be native from
america but yes it  is edible raw ( and very good )


jean-claude