Re: More On Meat Eating - Growing Children Need It

From: Philip Deitiker (Donevenask_at_worlnet.att.net)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 03:03:42 GMT

"Ross Macfarlane" <rmacfarl@alphalink.com.au> says in
news:4221165e$1@news.alphalink.com.au:

>
> "firstjois" <firstjoisyike@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:ro-dnfwWXtA6vL3fRVn-1A@comcast.com...
>> Rich Travsky wrote:
>>>> http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050221/full/050221-5.html
> ...
>>
>> Some time ago a group of people moving to Great Britian found
>> the food they
>> ate in the "old country" did not nourish the children as well
>> in Great Britian as it did in the "old country". Turns out
>> that what was missing was the protein from bugs that was cooked
>> and eaten with the grains in the "old country" - isn't eating
>> bugs part of the grooming process for chimps and apes?
>
> As I understand it, figs are often a very important foodsource
> for frugivores because of the parasitic wasps which breed in the
> fruit & provide an important protein source...

Fish is a better single source of protein, the omega fatty acids are
far more beneficial than side of cow. Mixtures of different proteins
sources such as insect larvae, bird eggs, small amphibians, small
rodents, lagomorphs along with shellfish and fish could have been
benificial. 

-- 
Philip
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