In the left hand column of the home page of The Paleo Garden you will find the latest issue of The Paleo Post.

“I will reach back and draw them into me, and they must come, for at this moment, I am the whole reason they existed at all.”

–Cinque calling on his ancestors from “Amistad.”

This is our latest snapshot of what’s going on in this evolutionary life for those of us on the frontlines of our ancestry living healthy by taking advantage of the lessons of the past, and doing it in such a way that is the healthiest for the earth right now and for our future generations.  And surprise, surprise, that certainly doesn’t mean eating soy and avoiding meat.  In this week’s episode look into a world when Chicago gangsters don’t run booze but are trading bullets for the right to sling butter.   You gotta fight, for your right, to live primal!

Also, check out the economic rap battle between John Maynard Keynes (the Standard American Diet in human form) and Friedrich August von Hayek (the economist on Team Paleo).    The Austrian economic perspective really does help explain how we got to where we are with mass feedlot and subsidized grain production in industrialized societies.  Our piece on Wooden Nickels and Metabolic Syndrome goes into this a bit regarding how unfettered money printing and currency devaluation brought down the Roman Empire… but it was to prop up agricultural subsidies.  In our modern times, if/when prices of grains go up, look for more government intervention in the marketplace regarding subsidies and price controls.  Which will artificially make paleo foods less competitive and more expensive in comparison.  Making people’s health worse as they gorge more and more on propped up grains and HFCS.  Making health care costs for the metabolically deranged skyrocket.  You may not be an Austrian economic adherent, but if you want affordable paleo food you’re more on Team Hayek than Team SAD/Keynes.

As Uncle Lew points out, someone like Keynes, whose most memorable quote is “In the long run we’re all dead”, has no concern for what carnage is left behind by his destructive policies that cause the bubbles that blow up into economic downturns.   I guess that philosophy is OK if you’re dead by the time your actions lead to the inevitable destruction.  Outside of the mass murderers of the last 100 years, the two people that have done the most damage to humanity are probably Keynes and Keys.  Two peas in a pod that should have gone bowling together.

Rounding out this issue of The Paleo Post are ostriches, paleo kosher, SAT FAT redemption, a crazy curmudgeon, and the return of megafaunas to our plates.

I can just see the return of the Fred Flintstone barbecue party and off in the corner the low-fat crowd licking their lips.

“Silly Ancel, mammoth steaks are for the evolutionary living.”  

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