QuestionHi Geoff,
WOW! How delighted I was to stumble across your Q&A forum on such a "unique" topic. I have read through past postings and found your responses to be informative and presented in such a clear, concise, and patient manner. Thank You!
I don抰 know where to begin as I have so many questions. So for the benefit of others I will break my questions up into separate topics/postings.
First a little background on my raw eating habits. I have been experimenting with raw eating now for about two months. I have read both of A.V.抯 books as well as some of Stefansson抯 and Weston A. Price抯 work.
As for A.V.抯 philosophy, I am grateful to come across someone who shares some of my disagreements with A.V.抯 views on raw eating. While my objective is not to bash A.V. because, I抦 thankful that he had and has the courage to write and speak about raw eating. But I too hard a hard time with the raw dairy and juicing aspects of his diet as well as the frequency of meals he advocates.
While I have enjoyed juices in the past, I never felt like it was natural or necessary for us to consume fruits and vegetables in the form of juicing or whole for that matter. As for dairy, I have never done well on dairy (even though I like it) but was willing to give the raw dairy approach a try since I keep hearing so many people talk about the health benefits. I抦 fortunate because I live in Northern California (San Francisco) that I have a great resource for raw dairy products www.organicpastures.com to experiment with. The bottom line is that I did it for only two weeks and while my symptoms were not as severe as they were with non-raw dairy, I still did not feel well consuming raw dairy. Don抰 get me wrong raw dairy is really YUMMY but as with other things in life that I really like梚t doesn抰 mean it抯 good for me. I抦 offically divorced from dairy!
I抦 currently getting all of my fresh raw animal products from North Star Bison on a weekly basis www.northstarbison.com. Their customer service as been great and they are making a lot of effort to expand their fresh animal products梛ust got my first fresh lamb order today. Now that I know what fresh meat really taste like I cannot even touch the stuff even at Whole Foods, as I know their meat has most likely been frozen and really not that fresh by the time it gets to the consumer.
Taking your advice, I have been eating more of organ meats and marrow bone and less muscle meat and have been benefiting from this shift.
So finally, I will get to my question. Unless I have missed it, I notice you do not mention eating any animal glands (i.e., thyroid, adrenals, pancreas, and thymus). Can you please tell me if you recommend eating glands as well as why and why not?
Regards,
Michel
AnswerI do eat some glands from time to time - namely, thymus and pancreas(aka "sweetbreads") - I tend to discard the undigestible connective tissue-part and eat the rest of it. I've never had the chance to get hold of adrenal glands or thyroid glands as, while the farmers are willing, the butchers in the abattoirs in the UK, who cut up the carcases for the farmers, are too limited to be able to understand that some people might want to eat those particular glands. It's all the fault of the overly excessive EU regulations which came in after all the hysteria over BSE in the UK - before that stage, UK farmers had far more control over cutting up the carcases of their animals.
In all, I would say that glands are very useful. Raw adrenal gland is supposed to be a great source for vitamin C, for example, and hunter-gatherers, according to Weston-Price are supposes to have eaten glands all the time. I can't honestly say whether the thymus/pancreas I've eaten has been as useful as the raw organ-meats I've consumed, as I've never been able to get hold of more than a couple of hundred grams or so of sweetbreads every two weeks at the very most.
RPG
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