It's different in California, ST. We had quota-fulfilling agricultural labor since the 1940s braceros programs. Conditions were oppressive, including substandard "company" housing, no schools for workers' children, and other human indignities. When the farm workers organized in the 1960s, abuses were exposed and corrected. Field agricultural work is much harder than any job in the lowest-wage range. Coming to work in the fields is not the immigrant's dream for himself, but the dream he has for his children's future. He (and his wife) are willing to work themselves to death to raise his children here.

Because most of California's agricultural land is not near cities, it is easier to see that chromic unemployment is not an agricultural problem, but an inner-city problem. It seems to me that the solutions to the endless cycle of poverty are at once obvious and impossible.

As for the US, I believe the term used to describe the current situation there, fuelled by mass immigration,  is "bladerunner scenario". Nice film,  but  it shows a dystopic Earth I would not want to live in.

A "bladerunner scenario" is not my current situation, that's for sure!

It makes me laugh and cry when I read about the US from an outsider's perspective. We have our problems, and we solve many of those problems and hope the solutions have some merit. I've lived in either rural or urban California for the past forty-five years and I feel like a normal person with a normal life. As a resident of a hub of global commerce, I live among "traders" (= immigrants) from many lands. As a citizen in a capitalistic society, I always face the temptation to be overly materialistic. As a woman protected by the Equal Rights legislation, I have pursued a life that fulfills my desires for myself and my family. I have never, not even once, dreamed of living elsewhere because of my dissatisfaction with American Inperfection.

I belong to the large socio-economic "middle" class of America. We complain a lot about every little imperfection, but we are not suffering. Above me, the socio-economic "upper middle" and "upper" classes also complain a lot about every little thing, and they do not suffer. Our impoverished "lower" class is suffering in material ways, but the remedy is elusive.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has condemned liberalism and multiculturalism and promised to battle rising immigration, saying it is turning his country into a "refugee camp."

"(A Hungarian) does not want to see throngs of people pouring into his country from other cultures who are incapable of adapting and are a threat to public safety, to his job and to his livelihood," The Associated Press quoted Orban as saying during his annual state of the nation speech in the capital  Budapest on Friday.

Of course, Hungary may do as it pleases, but from my assimilative perspective, people from other cultures are not incapable of adapting and are not a threat to public safety, etc. The "huddled masses" that come here in to California are lively, adventurous people, a little timid at first, and eager to return smiles.  Maybe my area of the US has the knack of promoting assimilation because we have had so much experience at it, so I'm not saying it's easy. But it certainly does not foretell doom.

I remember a time when sniffing your food was considered disrespectful to the cook (my mother).

There is a polite way and an impolite way to sniff food.

IMPOLITE: Sniff deeply while making a suspicious facial expression. And if you don't like the smell, wrinkle your nose and loudly say, "Ewwww!"

POLITE: Sniff with a half-smile and serene facial expression. And if you don't like the smell, keep the verdict to yourself. If your mother has sensitive feelings, murmur an approving sound. (It is permissible to tell a white lie to compliment your mother.)

And always carry the food to your nose with a culturally appropriate eating utensil.

To me, the concepts of rawness and the taste change do not overlap perfectly. A raw recipe with 15 ingredients will give a less noticeable taste change than a single steamed or even very lightly boiled food, for instance.

No argument about this! But then again, recipes are not paleo, either... 

There's a great DNA-supported bigfoot in the US, probably the deer hunter, though you didn't mention exactly. The mitochondrial DNA is from a human (so, it had a human female first-ancestor) and nuclear DNA from "something else" (probably from a contaminated human sample). Don't paleontologists drool over the idea of finding one single original Eve?

As a matter of fact, maybe I should get tested for bigfoot DNA, considering the large size of my feet!

I believe we have plenty of Americans in this forum.  Is it still safe for you to post a video like this and spread on your facebook accounts? ... Can you Americans do something about this mess so we can have world peace?

You have an interesting way of turning phrases, GS.

From within, the US is a regular place with regular people. It is certainly pleasant enough that your fellow countrymen fill a generous immigration quota each year and bring their culture here for good-ol' American assimilation.

It is easily observable that much of our governing system is an oligarchy, which I think is a natural tendency in the governments of industrial nations. You can see that tendency clearly in the biographies of our early industrialists: Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Morgan, Gould, Rockefeller. etc. Control is part of the psychology of people with big dreams, so there was no escaping the formation of oligarchy.

Then, there is a question of how being an oligarchy affects US foreign policy. If you go back to the last century, you can see how the energy giants that formed the basis of our industrial development exploited energy resources in other countries by conspiring with a friendly (= well-compensated) government. It was a de facto colonization of those areas in the guise of international cooperation.

You can see the colony's side of that type of interaction in your own country's colonial history. You were Spain's colony, but after that, you had the same treatment from the US as you did formerly from Spain, but the word "colony" wasn't used. Resentment of that type of treatment leads to revolutions for independence followed by a power struggle for the control of the new government. The big picture is that the Arab nations are going through their post-(de facto) colonization period. They have to hate us because our oligarchists are the ugly Americans with an expressed tendency to put money ahead of people. From the money perspective, they are the good guys. From the human perspective, they are as bad as a human gangster can get.

There is a growing side of benevolence among oligarchists, which I why I used the word tendency, and not certainty. Carnegie was probably the first "big-name" industrialist to endorse philanthropy, but we see a burst of philanthropic activities among all wealthy Americans nowadays.

And the rest of "us" are just regular people who post a vast variety of weirdness on the internet with no fear of reprisal.

How nice would it be to have places like this in the States! Maybe one day!

What are you talking about? You're in San Diego now! There's a huge Ethiopian community down there, as there is here in San Jose. I live within 2 miles of seven Ethiopian restaurants. Check it out on Yelp.

Warning: don't expect grass fed meats, and don't expect a mostly-raw meal. Everything is served on injera, a pancake made of a fermented ("sourdough") grain called tef (no gluten) but mixed with wheat in many places. Ask about a tef-only injera if you go. Most of the dishes are cooked, but in more of a healthy way than American cuisine, more like pre-industrial farmhouse fare.

You can make something like kitfo at home with ground beef and some major spices. You can find Ethiopian spices in Ethiopian grocery stores, which abound in US Ethiopian communities.

No more fruit juice I guess. Maybe just a small smoothie of slower releasing carbs.

I'm not a big fan of drinking foods. You need to chew foods, especially carbohydrates, because the mouth, tongue, nose, facial muscles, etc., are part of the digestive tract, where many digestive signals get generated, transmitted to the brain, and used to inform the stomach, liver, gall bladder, intestines, etc. what's coming down the hatch.

With a history of blood sugar issues, I used to avoid oranges completely. However, I grow oranges at my house, and I hated not eating my own excellent fruits. I found that if I eat them whole, sharing one orange with my two grandchildren, I get no negative blood sugar impact from part of an orange. In contrast, OJ usually contains an armload of oranges, so quantity alone is responsible for a lot of the sugar jolt in OJ. An orange has about 10 g of sugars, so compare half an orange (5 g = not much) to how many oranges you use to make a glass of OJ, and you'll quickly see how the sugars add up.

Food poisoning is not that likely from supermarket food, whether it is cooked or raw. When it does happen, it shows up as a bit of diarrhea and people just think they have a stomach bug. Go ahead and try it raw.

My main objection to frozen ground meats is that their thawed texture is all wrong in my mouth. I know that's a vague description, so you can judge for yourself.

Did you google their website? At http://straussbrands.com/our-meat/veal/veal-group-raised you can read this, emphasis mine:

Group Raised – Group raising allows the animals freedom of movement and the ability to develop instinctual socialization and herding behaviors. We believe that a tether-free, group-raised environment dramatically reduces stress on the calves and improves their overall health, producing delicious, tender veal.

Formula & Forage-Fed – The term “special-fed” veal is a USDA classification used to describe modern day veal calves that are derived from the dairy industry and fed a special formula or milk-replacer. In contrast, Strauss Group Raised Veal incorporates natural forage to aid in the development and health of our calves, resulting in pinker veal.

Now, I'd have to call Strauss Brands (or email them) to figure out what they really mean by "incorporates natural forage." Perhaps it means that they are formula-fed outdoors, or formula-fed with supplemental hay, or who knows?

Long-distance healing (internet, phone, etc) is a poor way to diagnose and treat someone. Even when listening carefully to the symptoms you describe, the diagnostic tool of subtle observation is missing. More important, your own sensory feedback is overlooked. In this case, the symptoms (fatigue, gas, bloating, abdominal pains, bowel movement problems) are your main focus. Instead, learn to use taste, smell, and other sensory responses you get from unprocessed food to guide you to the right foods for you.

I don't know much about your current practice of eating RPD since you returned to California, but even if I assume you have eaten a species-appropriate, raw, unprocessed diet for the last few weeks, I'd urge you to start from there and follow your own wisdom, which will develop in time.

First and foremost, you need to learn to be confident in your own wisdom. Your lack of confidence  can potentially make you the target of everyone with a slick sales pitch. And I don't mean that as a dismissal of any particular healer or of any specific supplements and protocols. I'm saying this because you don't seem to trust your own decision. Trying different things is good for discovery, but deciding to try these supplements when your inner voice says "bone broth" can lead to a lot of inner conflict.

And yes, I have tried diluted o.j. and LBB formula and all that. My family's experience is that paleo, especially bone broth, is outstanding for all types of healing, and my own experience is that RPD is the highest healer of all.