There are dozens of websites detailing how to cut up deer carcasses:-


http://www.ext.colostate.edu/PUBS/natres/06504.html
 Just Google.

Interesting.., I also read they had healthy teeth because of the small amount of sugar the Eskimos consumed.

Well, the argument is usually that eating cooked-food led to weaker jaws, though there are other theories such as bigger brains leading to weaker jaws, due to alignment/space etc.

Well, I take raw adrenals which have dried, powdered liver in them - freeze-dried not raw. I prefer to recommend real, raw non-dried liver, though.

The thought of raising children in the states under a raw animal regimen kinda frightens me actually. Americans (IMO) tend to be overly concerned with what other people are doing and our public school officials can be downright nazis at times. I've read some horror stories in the alternative press regarding school officials basically doing everything they can to preempt parents from raising their own kids. My biggest fear would be the wrong official finding out that my kid eats uncooked animal meat and then getting social workers involved on the assumption that I'm trying to "poison" my kid. Of course its poison to them, because it doesn't meet the established criteria for normal food, which would of course me a quack and a crackpot unfit to rear children. But who knows? I might just be paranoid or something.

I think that as long as the parents raise their rpd child without causing them malnutrition or obviously neglecting them in some way, that the authorities wouldn't stand a chance. There've been 1 or 2 cases of Raw vegan parents going to court because their child died of malnutrition and neglect, but many other Raw Vegans who raised their children on a deficient raw vegan diet did not get into similiar trouble because they weren't deliberately starving their children.

Anyway, I know of a number of families in the US who are raising their children on the Primal Diet or something raw and very similiar, and they don't get hassled by the authorities. There was a family called Haigwood who starred on one of the Wifeswap episodes some time back, who all ate the Primal Diet - despite the fact that numerous people phoned the authorities, after the show, to notify them of the Haigwood kids being "abused/neglected etc." as a result of this diet of rotting meat etc., the authorities did absolutely nothing as they said the children were clearly not coerced and quite happy with their situation, as well as reasonably healthy.

I have experienced the liver liquid as well so buying once a month sounds good. I have been told not to eat meat that has been frozen only refrigerated (chilled)...?

If you put the fridge at a very high setting, I suppose it's fine. It's just that a month's supply usually is too large and has to be put in the freezer.

A way  to preserve raw meats include drying(eg:- in sunshine with a covering to prevent any flies getting in). Storing meats in ground(doesn't preserve them, but it's what the Eskimoes did (in frozen ground) to make stinky high-meat). Pickling might be an option. Plenty of websites available online re both subjects.

When I first started, I couldn't face eating any raw meats that weren't absolutely fresh(ie they had to be less than 2-days old). As time went on, I got lazy and didn't eat them immediately and found I'd got used to the taste of meats aged for longer. I'm now so used to it all, that I don't mind eating very stinky organ-meats(though some long-timers prefer organ-meats reasonably fresh). Why don't you just freeze some of the meats, and keep enough unfrozen meats to last 7-10  days - then you can work out what works best for you.

So what do you guys think I should do til then? Fast? Follow a cooked paleo, low-carb regime? Cleanses?

Another thing I'd like to point out: some of these threads are freaking me out! People are talking about some serious transitional problems. I'd have to say that having to rush to the bathroom every 15 min. or so for a few weeks is going to cause some serious problems at work. Then there's all the talk about the heart palpitations and stuff. Heart problems scare me too. This is probably the first nutritional program that I've walked into not being completely optimistic. Which might be a good thing, since my other adventures contained too much optimism, often at the expense of realism. But anyway ...

One last issue: what's the deal with liver and carbs? Some people seem to keep saying eating liver is like eating carbs. What's the deal with this? I thought it was protein and fat?

You might want to fast for the next few days((raw)juice-fast or water-fast). Better than eating cooked-palaeo.
Re bathroom/toilet every 15(-30) minutes:- That was presumably a reference to my own experience. Actually, it only lasted 2-3 days for me. Anyway, everybody's initial detox is widely different - most(?) take a couple of days, some take a few weeks, while others experience no detox at all. Plus, symptoms are all widely different:- some people will feel fatigue, while others get constipation or diarrhea etc. - it all varies greatly from individual to individual.

Re heart-palpitations:- I was referring to a zero-carb experiment or two, in my own case, not to rawpalaeo in general. Anyway, I'd already had worse heart-palpitations etc. in the years before going rawpaleo, when I was either on Raw Vegan or cooked-food diets. Bear in mind that some others who've done zero-carb have done fine - so, just experiment and see what works.
If you're woried, you could always start doing minimal cooking and then gradually reduce the average temperature by 1 degree, adding any raw sauces if you want to.

I really would like to lose my glasses as much as possible, but my vision is just so bad!
I'm sitting like two feet away from my screen and I couldn't read a single word on here if it weren't for my glasses.
I wouldn't be able to tell who someone was from a distance while walking outside if I didn't have them on.
I certainly wouldn't be able to read anything up on the board in class without them.
 

Is there any difference between contacts and glasses when it comes to this? I'd like to get contacts instead of glasses but I'm worried they might be even worse than glasses for your eyes.

There's a very expensive process called "orthokeratology" where you buy specially-designed contact-lenses which reform your eyebal so that you can see perfectly at full vision. Trouble is, you have to insert them into your eyes every night and take them off every morning - should you forget to do this, after 2-3 days, your vision goes back to short- or long-sightedness, as applicable. Don't lose the lenses as they are so expensive. Bates Method practitioners state, though, that the Bates Method doesn't work with orthokeratology, as such. Have a look at the Bates Method yahoo group re all this.

The usual "Palaeo" definition, raw or otherwise, is anywhere between 35% carbs to 0% carbs(though some claim that Instinctos are Palaeos, and they eat often as much as 90%  raw plants). It's more important about what rawpalaeo is not(ie no dairy, no grains etc., no cooked-foods etc.)

Tallow is rendered(heated) suet so shouldn't be eaten. Get raw suet, instead.

Newbies generally don't like eating the tip of the tongue and the darker, purplier, stringier bits of the lower half of the tongue. Just cut out the pinker, slab-like parts into small enough chunks. Over time, you'll get used to and enjoy all parts of the tongue.

This is an ongoing, unfinished thread detailing the toxins in cooked-foods and loss of nutrients caused by cooking and freezing(please don't post here):-

Info on damage caused by freezing:-

http://ndnr.com/oncology/advanced-glycation-end-products-death-by-cooked-food/

http://www.rawfoodexplained.com/selection-and-storage-of-foods-part-i/does-freezing-harm-foods.html

Cooking can create traces of trans-fats:-

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A2483-2003Aug29&notFound=true


Cooking causes an increase in aging/sensescence by creating advanced glycation end products(AGEs):-

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11237208?dopt=Abstract&holding=f1000,f1000m,isrctn
Info on the Hygiene Hypothesis Theory which goes into detail on the benefits of bacteria and parasites:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis

Here's a reference which show that cooking reduces protein digestibility of meats:-

"From Oste [1991], heating (above 100°C, or 212°F) decreases meat protein digestibility. Frying chickpeas, oven-heating winged beans, or roasting cereals at 200-280°C (392-536°F) reduces protein digestibility.

Seidler [1987] studied the effects of heating on the digestibility of the protein in hake, a type of fish. Fish meat heated for 10 minutes at 130°C (266°F), showed a 1.5% decrease in protein digestibility. Similar heating of hake meat in the presence of potato starch, soy oil, and salt caused a 6% decrease in amino acid content."

taken from:-

http://www.beyondveg.com/tu-j-l/raw-cooked/raw-cooked-2a.shtml


The 2 studies referenced above are shown here:-

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1897402


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3748129?ordinalpos=2&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

Here's an article pointing out how cooking speeds up the oxidation of foods, possibly leading to heart-disease etc.:-

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_v127/ai_3762054

Here's a study which shows that human infants digest raw human milk better than heated human milk:-

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1714023

Info on enzymes:-
http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag99/apr99-cover.html

http://www.realmilk.com/enzyme.html

Heterocyclic Amines in Cooked-Meats:-

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/heterocyclic-amines

Microwaving at high temperatures have been shown to heavily reduce the anti-infective factors in human milk:- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1557249

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_n17_v141/ai_12100730

Microwaving has also been shown to be the worst type of cooking for cooking vegetables, as it virtually eliminates the antioxidants present in  vegetables:-

http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/jafcau/2007/55/i24/abs/jf071680t.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17979232

Microwaving has also been shown to reduce vitamin B12 levels in foods to a much greater extent than any other form of cooking:-

http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/jafcau/1998/46/i01/abs/jf970670x

Nitrosamines, which are present in processed and smoked  meats, have  been noted as being carcinogenic, being linked to  stomach-cancer:-

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16550597

Here's a report on toxins in cooked-foods from the Heat-Generated Toxins project:-

http://www.slv.se/upload/heatox/documents/Heatox_Final%20_report.pdf

Here's a scientific report  describing the typical loss of nutrients as a result of cooking:-

http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FPNS%2FPNS4_02%2FS0029665146000321a.pdf&code=44a8dfdde48fb6037fc0936b8a4b398c

Here's a scientific report showing the reduction in digestibility of meats after cooking:-

http://www.springerlink.com/content/rwm8p2pyb4kj3q5w/


Here's a table listing typical losses of vitamins and minerals from cooking:-

http://www.nutritiondata.com/topics/processing

A more minor online dictionary entry re the subject is found here:-

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O39-cookinglossofnutrients.html

There are also concerns regards advanced glycation end products
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_glycation_endproduct
, otherwise known as AGEs, toxins which are present in cooked-foods in sizeable amounts and which 
contribute to age- and diabetes-related diseases

http://hyper.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/46/1/232


Here's the most famous report so far on the typical AGE-content of several common foods:-

http://inhumanexperiment.blogspot.com/2009/09/age-content-of-foods.html

 , in the form of  chronic inflammatory diseases such as atherosclerosis http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=1634306 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9920507

asthma:-  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17208591

arthritis:-  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11822407

myocardial infarction:-  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18431051

macular degeneration:-  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16364296

nephropathy:-  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9044316

retinopathy:-    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9049475

neuropathy:- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18473845


Acrylamide,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide
 , a toxin found in baked/fried/grilled starchy foods, but not in boiled or raw foods, has been linked to endometrial, ovarian but not breast cancers in humans, and is a proven carcinogen in animals:-
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18006919

   

Also, toxic compounds called PAHs/polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, info shown on http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/tfacts69.html#bookmark02  and  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycyclic_aromatic_hydrocarbon (s) and
 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18675309

 present in processed, smoked  and cooked foods as well as in  coal and tar deposits, are known to be carcinogenic:-

 http://ec.europa.eu/food/fs/sc/scf/out154_en.pdf

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18314326

German research in 2003 showed significant benefits in reducing breast cancer risk when large amounts of raw vegetable matter are included in the diet. The authors attribute some of this effect to heat-labile

phytonutrients http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14690788


There have been various studies made concerning the negative effects of pasteurised milk:-

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2003/03/26/pasteurized-milk-part-one.aspx

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2003/03/29/pasteurized-milk-part-two.aspx

Here's an article on addictive substances created by cooking:-

http://www.13.waisays.com/ADHD.htm

Here is an article comparing cooked-food-consumption to smoking cigarettes:-

http://www.youngerthanyourage.com/13/cigarettes.htm

Here's an article showing how eating cooked food progressively ruined human dental health over the generations:-

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7035-human-dental-chaos-linked-to-evolution-of-cooking.html

Heat-created toxins cause heart-disease and speed up aging:-

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16222163

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18473756

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7598010

http://www.anti-agingfirewalls.com/2011/01/09/nitrates-and-nitrites-%E2%80%93-part-1-bad-for-you/

There's roughly a  c.3.5 to 1 ratio of men to women, here. I'm sure the proportion will change, over time, as the other RPD yahoo groups are mostly 1:1 as regards the male/female ratio.