SC - rancid meat

[Ceridwen]

Good Cousins:
    Having read everyone's opinion on this subject, I have another point
to offer. It may be that our immune systems are exactly the same as they
were 500 years ago, and that immunities are aquired in differing ways,
One of those ways is "exposure". As someone said, one can acclimate
one's system to many things, and I believe this may be the key here. We
have discussed the "super bugs" present in modern life, perhaps created
by our increasing dependence on anti- bacterials and antibiotics. If we
look around even here and now we will discover that persons living in an
exteremely clean environment have seemingly less resistance to the
"everyday common variety" bugs, while those who maintain a lesser
standard of "cleanliness" do not. I recently watched a TLC program about
a tribe n the Brazilian rain forest who schedule their hunting
expeditions to take about 10 days. The meat they bring back,(up to 10
days old, not gutted or cleaned in any way) is considered a feast, even
though the photographers and documentary writers along on the hunt were
sickened by the stench alone. These people it seems have developed a
resistance to those bacteria which would make us violently or deathly
ill. The practice of "hanging" game in the MA and later and the lack of
what we would call sanitation indicates to me that the meat they ate
probably would not be acceptable to *us* but it was fine for them. The
spicing issue I think was more personal taste and ostentatiousness than
"cover-up".
just thoughts,
Ceridwen



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