In a message dated Sun, 31 Oct 1999  2:46:03 PM Eastern Standard Time, Don Wiss <[log in to unmask]> writes:

> Michael Audette wrote:
> 
> >  Someone once posted a site or article about how agro type foods are
> >addictive and were a probable cause of such a change in history. Ray or
> >someone on this list could point you to it.
> 
> I presume you are referring to "The origins of agriculture – a biological
> perspective and a new hypothesis" in which Greg Wadley & Angus Martin argue
> that the shift to cultivation and animal domestication was due to the
> "comfort" derived from the opioid peptides from gluten:
> 
> http://www.vegan-straight-edge.org.uk/GW paper.htm
> 
> Also see John Coleman's "Opioids In Common Food Products-Addictive Peptides
> In Meat, Dairy and Grains":
> 
> http://www.vegan-straight-edge.org.uk/opioids.htm
> 
> Don.


Bingo...I haven't read those articles (going to asap) but sure makes sense to me.