No one admires you more than I do, Lex, and a large part of the reason is because you stick with a program that works for you rather than follow new fads.

Having said that, I wonder if you still follow the action in other paleo-centric boards.  Three in particular, which seem highly devoted to following the evidence-trail  no matter what the cost in shattered  comfortable-armchairs-in-fashionable-echo-chambers, are:

    donmatesz.blogspot.com
    wholehealthsource.blogspot.com
    carbsanity.blogspot.com

At these three, there are recent iconoclastic discussions.

it wasn't so long ago that EVERYONE KNEW that sacrificing children to the gods, improved the coming harvest.

I will call you on it Gosu:  You're a bullshit artist. Explain to us in detail, how you have a first-hand knowledge base of slaughter operations.... you read about it on the Internet?

PS.  Being cruel to animals costs time (of which there is zero to waste when you're trying to butcher 200 animals /hour), and degrades the meat's selling price.  A profit-hungry corporation is the owner who's most likely to never permit cruelty.

you should not even DREAM of buying land until you've worked as a farmhand for a number of years.

as a clock repairman, what is your personal criterion for deciding when a clock needs to be adjusted for running slow/fast?





by the way:

   http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T0P-3TVNH8Y-M&_user=10&_coverDate=09%2F30%2F1997&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=55bdbc73441c3e19da61e97498413cbe

i'll buy that cat from you

>>>   I know of no “magic number”, whatever that is


    Tyler (owner of this board) and many other card-carrying-raw-true-believers apparently have chosen 104 F  as the maximum temperature above which they draw a "has been cooked" line in the sand.

In general,  I enjoy and almost prefer the taste of cooked beef.  However, in my personal meal preparation, i can't seem to work up the motivation to do it and its attendant cleanup. I buy raw ground beef a serving at a time, and eat it out of the package

save the worms for me.   and don't let me get near that cat.....   some folks say it tastes like chicken.

>>>    I think it is quite freeing once you become comfortable with trusting your instincts


trusting their instincts is what led almost all neolithic people to the conclusion that sacrificing humans is an effective way to assure the success of staple crops.  Try reading the pages about human-sacrifice in a book entitled "Old Country Ways".


trusting their instincts is what led the ancient greeks to the conclusion that heavier objects accelerate in in gravity, faster than light objects.

trusting their instincts is what led the Vienna Medical Society to the conclusion that kicking Ignatius Semmelweis out, is more sensible than listen to his actual evidence that washing your hands after doing autopsies, leads to lower amount of childbirthing deaths.

i don't trust my instincts and i DEFINITELY don't trust yours.   Tell you frankly,  i am sick and tired of reading statements along the lines of: "eating XXXX made me sick".  I don't trust people's powers of observation.
 

>>>   they had better stronger healthier jaws and teeth than we do now


just to make sure that some junior moderator once again accuses me of being arrogant - and from some sort of devotion to the (misguided?) belief that  Lex's journal deserves to have posts which exhibit a higher standard of journalism (than places designed for the unwashed masses to roam freely)..... 

i think i will request to see some EVIDENCE that Grok had stronger jaws than i do.

just stumbled across the prior discussion of hominids eating only, or at least preferring organ meats in the downed prey animals

assuming that there is any evidence that such is true (an open question), if it IS true, we don't have to resort to any sort of  inplausible "instinctive knowledge of nutrition" arguments to explain it.

we can merely note that uncooked muscles are very fibrous.  In a wild animal, the muscles would be all that much tougher to chew on,  than from modern cultivated animals which are typically harvested in what amounts to late childhood.

>>>>    I am not sure I have it in me to ask my butcher for some brain


beef brains might not be available in commerce, due to the Mad Cow hysteria.  Especially in the UK.  If you run into that, try telling the butcher that it is for your pet animal.  I had a butcher department in metro San Diego made me sign a liability-waiver after they heard I was eating the fat trimmings uncooked.

to be fair to some very hardworking folks who hold lives in their hands....   banning nerve tissue from the food chain
may be the only feasible choice. Let us not forget, meat-consumers did actually get sick and even die from Mad Cow, in the not so recent past

Even outside the UK,  brains may be hard to get.  They have large content of fat, which makes them rather valuable.


Many folks on this board seem to be largely ignorant of the agricultural and food industries in general.  I wonder how many of you know what
a "primal cut" is. Guess what, it is the only beef that retail butchers ever get to handle nowadays.


The brains have buyers, and the abattoir may be under contract to forward every single brain to the buyer.

>>>>    I guess the best meal would be a whole rabbit. With organs and all. 1-2  meals a day would be best too.

rabbits are nocturnal feeders.

dogs did not descend from nocturnal hunters (eg: cats, owls)       they descended from wolves....daytime pack hunters.

their ideal prey is a large ruminant.   A wild rabbit really doesn't have much meat on him.  And wolf-pack techniques don't work best against non-herd animals.

but they would certainly gobble down a rabbit if hungry enough.