"W. Baker" > wrote in message
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> Todd > wrote:
> : On 03/18/2013 02:35 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
> : > "Todd" > wrote in message
>
> : >> Cow have two stomachs, so they can digest cellulose. We
> : >> can't. You missed the point.
>
> Actually they have 4!
>
> : >
> : > You do know that cellulose is added to a lot of food. Right? And
> what does
> : > that have to do with vegetarianism? It doesn't!
>
> : "cellulose" is called "bran" in humans. They derive no nutritious
> : from. Grass is cellulose.
>
> Well it keeps things moving along and for some folks that is a desirable
> effect while for others it can be a disaster!
>
>
> : >
>
> : > Seen those foreign films where the natives find a dead animal and
> : > butcher it?
>
> : Oh that can't be good. I have heard of American Indians that
> : will leave a dead diseased animal to rot.
>
> There were tribes in New Guinea that ate the brains of their ancestors
> when they died and it led to unexplained sicknesses until it was found
> that some diseases were being past on(like Mad COw)
>
> there have been cannibals too.
> : Glycemic Index for Corn Glycemic index studies of
> : corn report averages of anywhere from 37 to 62.
> : An average GI of 54 is commonly used.
>
> : Table sugar:
>
> :
> http://www.sugar-and-sweetener-guide...weeteners.html
>
> : Sucrose Sugar 65
>
> Corn in reasonable quantities is fine for non-diabeticsas part of a diet.
> some cultures use it as their main grain because that is what grew there.
> Look at Central America, home of the tortilla, originally only corn,now
> you can get corn anor wheat one, but that is only since Europeans
> introduces wheat to the Western Hemisphere.
>
> : >>>> We are "omnivores", like bears. Except that bears are
> : >>>> carrion eaters, unless you think hot dogs are carrion,
> : >>>> then we are just like bears.
> : >>>
> : >>> No we're not.
> How is our omnivoreness different from the bears? We both eat both
> vegetable and flesh foods. The native people and the bears in Julie's
> part of the country both look for the big salmon runs for sutenance
> through the winter, the bears by pigging out to get fat for hibernation
> and the naitive people to smoke the fish on alderwood to preserve it.

We're different because we don't *have* to eat meat to survive. Frankly I
don't know if bears need it to survive either. I have never studied bears.
But there are plenty of humans who never eat meat.
>
> : >> Both humans and bears are omnivores. Neither one of us
> : >> are herbivores as neither one of us can digest grass
> : >> (cellulose). I am not sure what you are disagreeing with.
>
>
> This is not all that I wrote, but I hope this, at least comes through.

Okay...