Dave Smith > wrote:
> Dimitri wrote:
>>>
>>> Other members of the family thought this was truly awful. My view
>>> is that although if you smell it closely, it is different; but
>>> that it is basically just a bit of *oxizidation* and it does not
>>> effect the taste. Years ago they used to hang up 'game' outside for
>>> weeks.
>>
>> Then again people used to die at 30 from natural causes Including
>> parasites.
>
> Then again, a lot of people used to live very long lives. My mothers
> ashes were interred in the cemetery of one of the older local churches
> and visiting her grave I usually end up walking around looking at the
> old grave markers. There are lots of infants and young people buried
> there, but there are a surprising number of people who lived well into
> their 80s and 90s. My sister in law is quite convinced that people of
> previous generations lived longer

More fool her. Its trivial to prove that they didnt.

> and that the average live expectancy is is skewed by infant mortality, childhood diseases, mothers dying during
> childbirth, farm or industrial accidents, but that once someone got past childhood and reproductive years they were
> likely to live a long life.

Its completely trivial to prove that they didnt and the
insurance industry has been proving that for centurys now.