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rk900, thanks for your input on the agricultural/Kikuyu issue, do you know for sure that the Kikuyus ate meat and such? It still baffles me, just their tribe... There was no mention that they ate insects or meat at all, just agricultural foods like sweet potatoes, beans, and millet.
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Well, meatzrus, considering that Price never found a fully vegetarian group (that is, a group w/ no animal products in the diet), I would say that the Kikuyus most likely consumed animal foods in one way or another. Here's some good info from another
WAPF article :
"Largely vegetarian Bantu tribes such as the Kikuyu and Wakamba were agriculturists. Their diet consisted of sweet potatoes, corn, beans, bananas, millet and Kafir corn or sorghum. They were less robust than their meat-eating neighbors, and tended to be dominated by them. Price found that vegetarian groups had some tooth decay—usually around 5% or 6% of all teeth, still small numbers compared to Whites living off store-bought foods. Even among these largely vegetarian tribes, however, dental occlusions were rare, as were degenerative diseases.
Many investigators have mistakenly claimed that Bantu groups consumed no animal products at all. Some tribes kept a few cattle and goats which supplied both milk and meat; they ate small animals such as frogs; and they put a high value on insect food. "The natives of Africa know that certain insects are very rich in special food values at certain seasons, also that their eggs are valuable foods. A fly that hatches in enormous quantities in Lake Victoria is gathered and used fresh and dried for storage. They also use ant eggs and ants."3 Other insects, such as bees, wasps, beetles, butterflies, moths, cricket, dragon flies and termites are sought out and consumed with relish by tribes throughout Africa.4 These insects are rich in the fat soluble factors found in blood, organ meats, fish and butterfat. It is significant that the vegetarian groups practiced the feeding of special foods during gestation and lactation. Apparently carnivorous groups found no need to supplement the diet, as it was already rich in the factors needed for reproduction and optimum growth."
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Also, another
website has the Kikuyu rasing cattle and using goats and sheep for "ritual sacrifice" -- which I'm assuming means that these animals were eaten in some way or another.
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so what really is the ultimate food then, just pure saturated fat high in Vitamins A & D? does it matter if this saturated fat is from meat or dairy? for example is the saturated fat and vitamin A in raw milk the same as saturated fat from the fat of an animal?
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The ultimate food, IMO, is: all parts of a cow raised on pasture (muscle meat, organ meats, broth from bones, fat, etc.). The nutrient content and nature of the food varies considerably with the food that it eats. Grass-fed is best w/ grain-fattening before processing (this mimics the natural process of cattle feeding on carbohydrate-rich seed heads during certain parts of the year). Lean meat is not good!
Ideally, we'd all be eating wild game of all kinds, but this is unrealistic (although achievable). This would provide awesome health, providing our digestive organs were up to par. It'd be nice to be eating moose, elk, wild salmon, whale meat, seal meat, etc.
Now, being a very practical person, I feel that eating factory-reared meat is fine. Especially if this is all you can afford or all that you have access to. Many folks say that this kind of meat has unhealthy levels of hormones and antibiotics that affect our health. This may be more malarky, or it may be somewhat true. Here's one
skeptic.
The best health I've ever experienced in my life is the way I feel right now. I live off of factory-reared chicken, egg yolks, sardines, and pork, along w/ easily digested carbs (ripe/cooked fruit and coconut water). I'm still healing my body, but I'd like to be able to eat tons of fatty red meat as the main component of my diet along w/ the above foods and fish now and again.
The ultimate food is red meat.
Of course, get your A & D from occasional liver (or eat it daily until it just doesn't taste as good -- I feel like this is a good sign that my body has ample stores of A for a long time), cod liver oil, lard, butter (if tolerated), egg yolks, and other animal fats as needed. Listen to your body!
If you've ever spent time in a primitive living situation (as I have) or talked w/ folks who do this as a hobby/lifestyle, you'd find that most plant foods must be boiled, leached, pounded, soaked, roasted, fermented, etc. etc. before they are fit for human consumption. Sure, the nutritional content of raw plant foods looks great on paper, but they have to be cooked to render them more edible and more concentrated for eating in large amounts.
Seriously. I came to the conclusion myself long ago that if you were going to eat raw things, meat and maybe fruit would be the foods to eat raw. Definitely NOT veggies. I've never met any vegan raw foodies in real life, but in their pictures on the internet I always think that they look unhealthy and strange. They have a "look" to them...their skin looks plasticy or something, and there is a hollowness around the eyes that just doesn't look right to me. And they are all shiny. It really reminds me of the practice of feeding horses arsenic to make their coats shiny - yes, the horse looks "nice", but it is being poisoned.
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