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To: AugustWest who wrote (24142)	11/28/2000 1:26:03 PM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 49844

You're always welcome at the table as long as you wash your hands first! :^)

To: AugustWest who wrote (24142)	11/28/2000 1:36:33 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 49844

Did you know that the Ethnographic Atlas classifies grubs as plant? Dr. Cordain turned to the 1997 update of the Ethnographic Atlas, which represents 1,267 of the world's societies, 229 of which are hunter-gatherers, and did his own calculations. Using all the hunter-gatherer societies listed and putting fishing and shellfish gathering into the appropriate hunter category, he found that the 65:35 values of Lee were flipped. Dr. Cordain calculated the actual plant-to-animal-food ratio to be 35 percent plant, 65 percent animal. He found that the majority of hunter-gatherers throughout the world get over half their subsistence from animal foods, while only 13.5 percent of the world's hunter-gatherers derive more than half their food from gathering plants. And these figures would lean even more in the direction of animal food were it not for the bias built into even the updated Ethnographic Atlas by the inclusion of small animals, reptiles, worms, grubs, etc., in the plant category. Scroll 2/3 of the way down or do a page search for grubs: omega23.com

To: AugustWest who wrote (24142)	11/29/2000 2:33:10 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 49844

Heavy Floods Deny Farmers Rat Barbecue Updated 8:18 AM ET November 28, 2000 news.excite.com HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (Reuters) - Vietnamese farmers will miss out on traditional rat barbecues this season as recent floods have largely wiped out the pest, experts say. Rats have been the cause of many problems for rice farmers in the Mekong Delta in recent years, so enterprising farmers have taken to selling and eating the rodents to alleviate the problem. Rats destroyed 245,000 hectares (605,400 acres) of rice crops last year in Vietnam, the world's second largest rice exporter after Thailand, according to a study compiled by the Southern Vietnam's Institute of Agriculture Sciences. But since August, heavy rains and severe flooding in the region have washed away most of the rodents. "Last year rat meat was about 5,000 dong ($0.345) per kilo in the market. But this year, there's none available. Major floods have killed them all," said an official at the institute. Rat meat is a common source of protein in the region and until this year officials had been battling with the question of how to catch the rats without using poison.