Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Ok, not that obvious, but I'll agree to disagree ;-). And we don't know what 
Lewis and Clark died of or what they ate the rest of their lives before and 
after their trek. Nor do we know the life expectancy of those mountain men. 
There is a common myth that Indians lived on meat, but most everywhere they 
settled they had some agriculture and/or fishing or foraging.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 7/7/2010 at 9:33 PM Harvey Ussery wrote:

>On 07/07/2010 01:23 PM, Tradingpost wrote:
>> . . .it's obvious that a constant diet of red meat is harmful.
>
>I'm not sure it's obvious at all. I've read that the Lewis and Clark
>party ate about nine pounds of meat per man per day--and little
>else--during their two-year expedition, with no apparent ill effects. It
>was common for the "mountain men" who followed them to subsist on little
>other than hunted meats (like the Plains Indians from whom they
>learned). There are many other examples of almost exclusively meat diets
>on which the eaters thrived.
>
>Of course, they weren't eating CAFO meats, were they? Nor am I
>advocating a meat-only diet. But I don't think the evidence is at all
>sound that eating "a constant diet of red meat"--typical of hunting
>cultures where game was plentiful--constitutes a health disaster.
>
>~Harvey
>
>
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