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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
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Subject: Re: 'Eating to Live Longer' - ptooey!
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 17:32:25 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 17:32:25 1985
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Stanley Friesen writes:
> ... your (dietary) rules seem to be based on questionable
>reasoning to boot! The ecological shift which seperated the Hominidae
>from the other Great Apes 4 to 6 million years ago was the shift to
>*carnivory*, thus to deny eating meat is to deny a large part of our
>evolutionary heritage. Perhaps analyzing the middens of early
>Australopithicus might be a way of determining the optimal diet? :-)
>At least that would be based on real evidence.
>
>				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

It was my impression that chimps and gorillas DO eat meat when
they get the chance (insects, small mammals).

	Frank Silbermann