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yay Chaos Theory! re: dairy cows as meat - all those big poly bags of meat bits should be held suspect, btw.

congratulations!!!!

4lbs in 4 days = 4lbs of WATER, pumpkin. unless of course you have been eating 3600 extra calories a day for the last 4 days.

i hope your getting your shipping money back. and it is crazy that they have no way of getting in touch with the driver.

i've had grass-fed beef. I liked it. it's a little leaner, and less tender than the grain-finished stuff, but it still tasted like beef, and it certainly helped to knwo i was eating something clean. i would definitely eat it again, i just need to find freezer space and a local source.

whilst i agree on the notion that vegetable feeding is vegetable feeding - my main reason for saying grass-feeding, is that grain-feeding, and grain-finishing assumes feedlots - whose practices for the most part scare the hell out of me.

haha...thanks jat!

thanks uberleet - mike alpers had to be the guy - apparently it was the 60s not the 50s - but yeah, he drew the correlation between Kuru and human brain-eating. i remember htem going into that part in detail. and thinking after seeing it that it seems almost like nature has formulated a way for higher level species to maintain a cannibalism taboo.

i think if your beef is grass-fed and finished, then chances are lower. BSE is prevalent these days because of feedlot practices, and feeding non-veg diets in hope of increasing protein intake. i remember watching an interesting documentary on BSE a year or so back, and it showed a clip from the 1950s (i'm guessing, as it had that old 8mm feel to it). In any case it was an anthropoligist interviewing a former cannibal in New Guinea. I believe tribal cannibalism was mainly in the form of eating the brains of your victims (for that tribe in any case). it had been fairly eradicated by the 50s but there were still older people int he tribe, some of whom exhibited symptoms much like the clip of the cow that we keep seeing. This was before Creutzfeldt-Jacob had been discovered, or named rather - but it certainly was an interesting parallel. i wish i could remember what the name of the documentary was - i'll have to start googling.

exactly. i think it's funny how in the newstories i've been watching the issue of how cows get BSE is being sidestepped. other than one newsbyte that mentioned "it doesn't transmit from cow to cow" i'm with kenk.

i think so - it's on Memorial about a mile east of spring street. i jsut went there yesterday - the spicy sauce is damn good. i really dig their ribs. for me the portion size was fine, but my coworker seems to think it's small. but bear in mind i got takeout.

"avio-pesco-vegan"?

i dunno. either you eat "face" or you don't, imo.

damn - i can't even see that link, as it's blocked for some reason by my work firewall. *lol* i'd love to take a look at it tho. I thought perhaps you were referring to Dr. D'adamos work with blood typing and lectins. (Eat Right 4 your Type) while his theories are compelling, especially the stuff in "live Right 4 your type" i have a tough time buying into new theories without solid peer-reviewed research on it.

apparently people are researching it.... http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/318/7190/1023 edit - actually waht's more interesting than this article itself, are the sources sited at the end - it may help you with your research.

you googled lectins and came up with pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo? hmm. i typically get my science from peer-reviewed journals, actually. you could try searching within BMJ.com and PubMed. anyways - no it doesn't come from the soy = bad people, altho the effects of soy on thyroid functioning is definitely worth noting. as for soy giving men boobs, i'm not entirely certain - if anything it may help with blocking estrogen receptors up, perhaps helping those who experience gynecomastia during puberty. don't quote me on that tho.

i cast my vote for this strategy!!!

lectins are plant proteins that basically the serve as protection form the plant being eaten. this is why us humans have to cook most of our plant-based foods before we can digest them - since it deactivates these lectins in one way or the other. also one of the reasons cows have 4 stomachs. one of the problems is that certain lectins look remarkably like proteins in our bodies, and can, if not cause, then aggravate various auto-immune disorders (rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, etc). it's all good if you eat some plant foods, along with some animal foods, and basically eat a balanced diet, but if you swing too much in either direction, their tends to be higher risks of disease of one sort or another.

hmmm..mines basically been Fox creek Vixen sparkling shiraz and peppermint bark. my rommate made a bunch of cookies that she's been forcing me to give out, but they aren't tasting so good, 3 or 4 days later. (i sampled them all fresh from the oven)

i would say a vegetarian diet can be unhealthy yes. mainly due to lectins in grains, beans, nuts, seeds, some fruits, and various legumes.

Hell, I'd pay to see that. heh. you and me both, sister.

the point isn't that he's endorsing a product, it's the product that he is endorsing and how it compares with the "platform" he ahas espoused throughout his career. it's kinda like if dr atkins was alive and he did a pillsbury doughboy commercial. or the head honcho of PETA doing an advert for perdue chicken whilst wearing a floor length furcoat, all cuz the money is good.

how about just walking into random chinese restaurants and asking the patrons if anyone of jewish descent would raise their hands. take note and then walk out. although that sounds kind of creepy.

well good luck with that. seriously.

holy crap! a 3-4 hour commute? i'd keel over and die. kidney pains can be caused from anything from dehydration to full on renal failure. that's something to talk to a doctor about.