Hello Chris,
(I'm not sure if I've already told you this little detail):- in order to get
used to the taste of raw meat, you could start cooking the meats till
they're medium-rare or well-done, whichever you prefer, and then eat with
the usual amount of sauces you require (preferably raw)
- then, whenever you get used to each stage(every couple of weeks?) reduce
the cooking temperature by 1 degree and the amount of sauce each time, until
you can eat the meat completely raw by itself. The alternative is to, of
course, buy tiny amounts of 100s of different raw animal foods and just eat
the 5-20% you find taste great, throwing the rest away.
- after the usual taste-change you'll find that more will become tasty. .

Since RAF-beginners are used to eating cooked foods with little taste,
they usually find the better-tasting organ-meats and wild meats to be too
rich in taste at first. Best to start with muscle-meats -
eventually, you should find them starting to taste a bit bland, and then you
can start adding organ-meats etc. to your diet.

I don't know of any general listing of animals and their natural foods, as
such. What I can tell you is that most herbivorous animals should eat grass,
insects, seeds etc. instead of grain for optimal nutrition. It's well-known,
for example that, in order for eggs to be produced all-year-round, chickens
etc. have to be fed an unnatural diet high in grain. Eggs from grain-fed
chickens are much lower in essential omega-3 fats, by the way, and eggs
from non-chicken species(duck/pheasant/geese etc.) are usually less likely
to be fed grain. I myself buy a lot of raw goose-eggs in March to May which
is the only time the geese lay them.

Personally, I rarely bother asking farmers if they heat their honey or what
their animals are fed on(or whether the meat's been prefrozen etc.). I've
been deceived so often that I mostly don't believe a word they say - I
mainly rely on taste to tell the difference, which usually works - plus I
tend to get rather unpleasant symptoms from heated honey etc. . From my own
experience, the only reliable way to find out if farmers are raising their
animals properly with decent nutrition, is if you find out that the
animals have been mostly left alone to feed themselves. Obviously, wild
meats are best in terms of taste and nutritional content as they are free to
select the best of what's available in the wild. Oh, and never buy
so-called "organic" salmon or trout or similiar farmed-fish - the only
difference between the two is that certain chemicals, such as canthaxanthin,
are added to nonorganic salmon, but not to the organic salmon - wild
salmon, by contrast, taste great because they feed on shrimp etc. .

Lastly, it usually takes a long time for RAF-beginners to build up a
reliable list of decent, regular local sources of raw animal foods, so
it's really not the end of the world if you can't easily get hold of
nonprefrozen meats. And don't spend too much money looking for high-grade
organic meats. Many are far too expensive(though organic organ-meats are
cheaper), and I've found that many wild meats and some nonorganic-labelled
meats are actually cheaper and higher in relevant nutrients.

Geoff Purcell


schunemann" <chris_schunemann@...>
>Reply-To: rawpaleolithicdiet@yahoogroups.com
>To: rawpaleolithicdiet@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [rawpaleolithicdiet] A Relieving Response
>Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 03:54:14 -0000
>
>Hey Geoff, In striking contrast to months ago, my requests for local
>help in other yahoo groups actually garnered responses. Apparently the
>local markets and stores are enough for people on the primal diet to
>subsist. One person even claims to live soley off a raw meat dog-
>feeding coop. The raw meat pet feeding coops seem pretty extensive
>throughout California and well organized. It is frustrating to see
>people come so far to ensure the highest nutrional quality and then
>just freeze the meat without thinking twice.
>Do you know of a listing of animals people eat with their proper
>natural foods? I would like to be able to ask a
>farmer/butcher/whomever what the animal was fed and know if that's
>equivelent to grass-feeding a cow.
>Hopefully a couple months from now ill be 100% raw paleo! I'm not
>looking forward to having to work to throw off my cooked food
>conditioning though. I still have all your previous advice saved on my
>computer - It will not doubt prove useful.
>Hope all is well with you
>Chris
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