Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Aliza Vanderlip <songbird97520@yahoo.com>]

I lived with the Inuit in Barrow - I promise you that you can live well on lots of meat:o)  Caribou, whale, walrus, seal etc.  While they were nomadic they followed the caribou herds and ate meat.  On the North Slope there is maybe 2 or 3 months where the ground isnt frozen and even when breakup comes there is little vegetation - the ground only defrosts for a few inches.  The willow trees were 2" tall in Barrow in the summer LOL  While they did eat berries in season in the lower part of the slope, there was no "gardening".   Weston Price found a whole spectrum of very healthy peoples from mostly all meat to mostly all vegetation but all the healthy ones ate at least some animal products.  If you havent yet read Weston A Price's writings they are worth the read.

Blessings,

Aliza
www.eftashland.com


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--- On Thu, 7/8/10, Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:

From: Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Fat or Carbs: Which Is Worse?
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Thursday, July 8, 2010, 9:44 AM

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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