AboutRawPalaeoGuy Expertise I can answer most questions on Raw Animal Food Diets such as the Primal Diet, an organic, raw-meat-based diet and a number of similiar all-raw or partially raw Paleolithic diets, such as the Instincto, Weston-Price, Neanderthin, Paleo and Stefansson Diets. Can also offer advice on
how to resist social pressure to eat cooked foods etc. For further info on Raw-Animal-Food diets, feel free to browse through this website:-
http://www.rawpaleodiet.com/
Experience I have been 8 years on a 99%+ raw version of the Palaeolithic Diet and experienced numerous health benefits as a result, being fully recovered from my previous symptoms from my cooked-food days. My own individualised raw, paleolithic diet routine is mostly based on Aajonus Vonderplanitz's Primal Diet(ie 99% raw, usage of "high-meat",no processed supplements, using primarily naturally-reared, organic or wild sources of raw foods) but, for personal reasons, I have also been, to some extent, influenced by ideas from:- Instincto(ie:- taste/instinct,no raw dairy/no raw veggie juice), Weston-Price(eg: preferring grassfed meat to grainfed meat, incorporating a wide variety of raw organ-meats into my diet along with the usual muscle-meats, and Vilhjalmur Stefansson(high-fat diet, pretty high proportion of (raw) animal food), but also eating some raw carbohydrates such as raw organic/wild fruit/veg/honeycomb etc.). I'm also a firm believer in the feast-and-famine idea (ie Intermittent Fasting) as regards boosting one's energy levels, and giving my body a rest from constant digestion.
Organizations Rawpaleodiet Community(Comprising rawpaleoforum , rawpaleodiet yahoo group and the rawpaleodiet.com website among others).
Publications Allexperts and Rawpaleodiet.com
Education/Credentials BA(German) 3rd; No nutritional qualification(I don't believe in standard(misguided) nutritonist doctrine, so I don't feel the need).
I am moving to Frimley, near London, about a month from now. My
daughter's diet is predominantly offal, fat and just a bit of muscle meat. I
have been reading through your blog and your previous answers re sources of
meat. Thank you, great information. Do you have any specific farmers who
sell grass fed offal and marrow? Could you pass them on?
Much appreciate all the information and advice.
Regards,
Aargi
Answer I'm afraid I can't give you details of specific farmers for suet/marrow as, like most RAFers(raw Animal Foodists) in the UK, I only have access to small-time organic, grassfed farmers who slaughter perhaps 1 or 2 animals every few weeks/months, so if I gave you those details, my own, already very meagre order would be halved, if I gave them to a third person, I'd get a mere third etc.! Plus even my own sources tend to change very frequently as the farms move to different farmers' markets or farms discontinue selling organs except locally or due to seasonal issues.
Here's a previous post which covers the main methods re finding raw animal food sources in the UK:-
My own main source is the London Farmers' Market as it provides me with things like wild hare carcasses, extra-large wildcaught raw oysters etc.
You;ll be able to get organs like hearts, liver, kidney and tongue relatively easily from grassfed farms(many easily findable via googling your nearest local counties). Farmers' markets also offer them, but you usually have to pre-order them in advance by going straight to the stall and asking about availability. Brains are extremely difficult to get hold of, being technically illegal. I got pigs' brains, a couple of years back(not ideal as pigs are fed on crappy grain diets).
Farms offering raw suet/raw marrow are in a distinct minority. - this generally involves phoning/e-mailing a couple hundred grassfed/organic farms, found online, until one finds a reliable source. Recently, I have come to the conclusion that this is all a bit of a waste of time, and am wondering if it might be just so much easier to get in touch with any UK online groups dealing with raw animal food diets for dogs(either BARF or prey-model) to find acceptable organic or free-range sources, as dog-owners are the main buyers of marrow(and indeed offal).
By the way, re mention of eating mostly offal:- I should mention that my main interest in promoting raw organs over raw muscle-meats in the early part of volunteering for this website, was that Aajonus didn't promote raw organ-meats enough, and because some people start this diet with digestive systems completely wrecked after years of eating cooked foods and often find that raw organ-meats are much easier to digest than raw muscle-meats. These days, however, I'm a bit more laid back re this issue. I still think it's essential to eat organ-meats in as wide a variety as possible in order to improve the health of the relevant organs in one's own body(after all hunter-gatherers would generally eat the whole animal), but I don't consider it necessary to eat mostly raw offal, these days.
