From: John Cartmell 
Newsgroups: uk.d-i-y uk.education.misc uk.education.schools-it uk.finance uk.food+drink.misc uk.food+drink.real-ale
Subject: Re: 10 Reasons to go veggie
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:10:37 +0100

In article <1159456539.12082.2@proxy00.news.clara.net>,
   The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
> John Cartmell wrote:
> > In article <1159453066.3619.0@damia.uk.clara.net>,
> >    The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
> >> We have no *natural* diet. That's the point. At a pinch societies have 
> >> evolved subsisting on many many different diets, and by the fact of 
> >> their survival, whatever diet they survived on is 'natural'
> > 
> >> E.g. the West has used alcohol as  an antiseptic in water for 
> >> generations, and we have a tolerance for it that the asiatics, who have 
> >> instead adopted boiled water with leaf infusions in it instead, have not.
> > 
> >> E.g. Most of the tribes that live up around the arctic circle are pure 
> >> meat eaters - nothing palatable grows up there to eat of a vegetable 
> >> nature whatsoever.
> > 
> >> E.g. jungle dwelling tribes have very little carbohydrate input. Meat 
> >> fruit and a few root vegetables, but bugger all carbohydrates.
> > 
> > But I addressed that question way up the thread.
> > 
> It wasn't a question. It was a statement,

It was a statement in error.

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