Hi, please more information on these beasties that are dependent on salt. Do they develop the problems humans are reported to develop if they don't find salt licks? Also, in what sort of situations do salt licks occur in nature, will a troop of whatever sort of animal have to migrate or trek to find a lick or the existence of the troop is jeopardised?

 

Modifying our food is one thing, but modifying it so that foodstuffs we ordinarily would find uninteresting become palatable, I think has consequences like hospitals, dieticians, psychiatrists, the list is endless. Two examples I'll give are the herbivore, the cow, being fed sheeps brains and spinal columns if they are cooked right, and the human disinterest in live or raw chicken but adoration for cooked chicken. The two things we do to disguise our foodstuffs, it seems to me, are subject them to fire or salt them. This alters the natural situation. Even sushi is taken with soy sauce and wasabi. Would we be so interested without these artificial applications - did we really climb out of the primordial swamp with a box of matches and a salt shaker? Why is it possible that a substance so vital to our existance is not naturally found in our foodstuff, surely natural selection would have gotten rid of such a flaw in our survival capabilities.

 

Thanks for answering my questions

 

Katie
 

On 22/08/06, f f <sunrf1@...> wrote:

of course we are slaves, in more ways than one. However, i think it is false to say that we are the only animals being obsessed with food. after all give any animal the chance to alter the food source and they will. look at chimps, monkeys or even at animals in african parks that eat fruit that have decayed to alcohol and i am sure there are more animals out there. there are some basic instincts out there: life and reproduce. we need to eat and drink all live long, every day, multiple times. Of course we will "mess" with our find as much as we can, for the better or the worse.
 
By the way, we are not the only ones being dependent on salt. horses and cows get a salt stone. some monkeys are being trapped with salt. and more examples exist of animals needing salt. most organisms on this planet are built in a way that requires them a certain amount of salt to function.

gtg
hope this helps



 

---

To: commonsalt@yahoogroups.com
From: southafricaninsideandout@...
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:41:54 +0200
Subject: Re: Bread and Salt, in ancient Hebrew

thanks, I've just been and checked and last night's late night reading left me squint. The quote is
 

Such was the importance of salt that the words, 'war' and 'peace' originate from the word for salt & bread in Ancient Hebrew and Arabic - The first war that mankind initiated was most probably over 'salt' supplies.

It reads differently today from how it did.

 

I stand by the rest of my words, though. We are slaves.

 

 

 

On 22/08/06, elimelec <elimelec@...> wrote:

 

how do find that the words are the same?

???
???
?????
???
avi
 

-----Original Message-----
From: commonsalt@yahoogroups.com [mailto: commonsalt@yahoogroups.com]On
Behalf Of kgvp.rm
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 9:58 AM
To: commonsalt@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Bread and Salt, in ancient Hebrew

Dear Moderator,

Please can you explain how it is that salt and bread are the same word
in ancient Hebrew. According to the Eden story, we ate a normal diet
like other animals until our fall, and our diet changed then to become
bread, seeds and grains subjected to fire. That salt provides the
spark for fire is interesting too, and that it is the source of the
word slave. Of course we are slaves, what other animal HAS to have
salt? What other animal alters almost everything it puts in its mouth
by subjecting it to fire? What other animal is quite as ill, or
obsessed with food, as the human? We may call our diet traditional,
but we may not call it normal.

But the question is about the link between bread and salt, please.

Katie

Yahoo! Groups Links


 

---

Check the weather nationwide with MSN Search Try it now!