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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> Over the past 35 years I have encouraged people to eat a starch-based 
> diet-few have listened.

While I very much agree with the good doctor, a starch based diet is the most 
healthy and economically feasible, his conclusions about animal products are 
only true (to the extent he reports them) withing the commercial food and 
agribusiness model.

I just came in from a place in the woods running amok with chickens 
scratching out bugs and fungus and others in the field eating grass.  We eat 
those 
animal products, eggs and meat, without it involving any food being removed 
from 
human consumption at all.  We are making use of resources that without the 
chickens are beyond our avail.  Likewise milk, chevon, and to a large extent 
rabbit.

The problem ins't eating animal products, it's eating agribusiness products.

To be sure our consumption of meat is WAY below the national average.  When 
they came out with the recomendation that people eat less than 17 oz of red 
meat per person per week, we said "What?  People eat that much, do they??"  
Yet 
four quarter pound burgers over a week (yuck!) would just about take care of 
it.

My guess is that in the groceries and the marts people are now schwinging out 
the plastic in a futile effort to delay the inevitable.  I can see the 
Pirates of the Caribbean charater Davy Jones coming up to the timid shopper 
...."Do 
you feah carbs?  Do you feah the healthy food?  All your bad habits laid beah 
...  I can offer you an escap-puh"   </HTML>