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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Humans are a uniquely dangerous species<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>Here is a book you two might find very interesting, even if it is rather old:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;box-sizing:border-box' id=gmail-title><span class=gmail-a-size-large><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#111111'>Man's Rise to Civilization, As Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State - Peter Farb - still on Amazon</span></span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#111111'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmail-a-size-large><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>From the grub-eating Shoshone to the civilized Zunis, this is a book you cannot fail to find fascinating. It does deal with captures of members of other tribes.</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmail-a-size-large><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>bill w<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Notice how many ancient people’s eat grubs? Those things might be really tasty, and here we are missing out. Would you eat one? I just might. I would need to drink a few beers beforehand. Probably still barf, but at least then we would know.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Think about it: if they are larval beetles (why did I want to spell that beatles?) they might be just the ticket: they haven’t begun developing an exoskeleton, and there’s enough volume there to make it worth it. Think about the other tasty but super-gross looking foods, such as… oysters. I am surprised that one was ever discovered. At some point, someone somewhere had to crack one of those open and say to himself: I think I will eat that. He must have been totally bonkers. Or perhaps a seashore community look at it, grossed out, caught a murderer, and told him: eat that, or we kill you. If you survive, you go free. He ate, survived, the notion spread, now we know that oysters are excellent food.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If we ever went to make bugs an alterative food source, grubs could be farmed in huge numbers at low cost.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>