On Thu, 30 Jul 1998 23:15:18 -0500, Michael Audette <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Thank God for this drought.Less corn!
>    Mike Audette
before Ray wrote:
>> Todays Texas Journal(WSJ) stated that 62% of Texas corn tested this year
>> has been deemed unfit for human consumption because of aflatoxin levels
>> above 20 ppb (parts per billion)caused by aspergillus flavus a parasitic
>> fungus found on irrigated crops.  They have even found some with levels
>> above 1000 ppb.  The permitted level for dog food is 300 ppb.
>>
>> Aflatoxin causes pancreatic, liver and esophical cancers and is
>> considered the primary nutritional sourse of cancer in the U.S.  In
>> Africa whe
re they eat even more corn than Americans do these cancers are
>> pandemic.
Aflatoxin contaminated plants are a serious threat to human health as
Ray cleary states.
It results from plants beeing stored with too much humidity so that the
fungus can grow and produce it's poisons.
As plants used for human consumation may be contaminated it can be hoped
that they will be rather well tested and stored properly.
Best would be to eat plants from the garden directly(as I did this morning).

Unfortunately most of the corn and other mass produced plants
(wheat, barley, grass) is fed to lifestock, an so accumulates in
both, meat (especially fat) and milk products.
Several intoxication cases have been reported over here by children drinking
aflatoxin intoxicated milk.
Since accumulation can multiply intoxication, it multiplies the threat also.
In the USA for example 70 % of all grain is fed to lifestock,
p
ossibly poisoning its meat and milk with aflatoxins.

Unfortunately Neanderthin still promotes consumation of farmed meat,
look at the recipes!
Especially pigs _always_ life on farmed crops
(in the best case, otherwise they are fed waste, garbage).
Look how much bacon is in the neanderthin recipes - waste fat.
If you think of your steaks comeing from animals peacefully grazing
outside you may be on the wrong track.

Most cattle are fed eather exclusively "concentrated feed stuff"
(grains, fish remains or animal waste) or at least during a long time
of the year they get most of the proteins added from farmed stuff (or waste).

And often even wild game is getting a considerable part of it's
nutrition from crops - fed during the winter
(at least here in germany, hunters are even required to feed the animals).

I'm missing the following in Neanderthin:

"Never eat farmed mea
t- neather pig nor beef nor birds.
It's fat composition is bad, and it contains toxins as well
as chemicals.
Only eat wild game.
You can eat beef if it is from a known free range source
(mostly Angus), if you know it is not fed additional concentrated feed."

And where is the insect recomendation? Termites? Worms?
They ought to have uncontaminated animal protein and are used heavily by
present day gatherers/hunters as well as other primates.


regards
Amadeus