Re: Humans as scavengers


"johnwl4@xxxxxxx" <jgissw@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi, Pete,
Guess I'll top post, since my only remark is, "There's no disputing
tastes." Have you ever had palola worms?
REgards
John GW


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I wonder how much of our ability to digest things is dependent simply
on what we are exposed to in infancy. Perhaps our digestive systems
are very flexibly programmable when you start early enough.

At any rate, it still happens now and then that the local indians
screw up with their sauce making, and a family will come near to
being completely wiped out. The current revision of the recipe,
by the way, involves `pour into a black plastic garbage bag,
place inside a plastic bucket, and bury in the back yard for
three months' and does not at any point call for cooking.


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vincent@triumf[munge].ca Pete Vincent
Disclaimer: all I know I learned from reading Usenet.

That's a lot of icky stuff!

I suppose our taste for certain foods would depend on what we are exposed
to - early infancy or not. Children certainly have food preferences which
change as they grow older. You must remember seeing little kids who want
their food separated and don't want the meat, potatoes, and veggies to be
mixed together or maybe not even touch? Most kids like milk chocolate while
many grown-ups like the dark chocolate.

People in some of the third world countries have bacteria in their upper
digestive system where people in developed countries do not. This bacteria
may help digestion for the foods they do eat, I don't know. The bacteria
does interfere with the oral "vaccines" that health care people would like
to give them for the various communicable diseases we now rarely see in
developed countries. These vaccines can be given by injection but this
requires antiseptic preparation, qualified people to dispense, it is slow,
and there are probably other problems I can't think of now. I think there
are several groups in the US and other places working on special oral
vaccines for third world countries now that would survive upper digestive
tract bacteria. Anyway, it may be that ancient humans who scavenged had the
same distribution of bacteria as some third world peoples do today.

Jois

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My dogs are not my children.
At least that is what their piano teacher says.



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