GOING OVERBOARD

For me, and I suspect for a lot of others, this diet is about getting back to our natural state of things. It's about mimicking the diet under which we evolved. Our bodies are fine tuned machines, finely tuned to an environment that has only recently (evolutionarily speaking) been drastically altered. It's we like own a Ferrari that was designed for Premium gas but are filling the tank with unleaded. It will still work with the cheap stuff, but it's really going to perform on the premium stuff. This is how I think about the body and living foods.
So then I saw this comment. The comment was, "People always talk about fish oil being so great. Get the same long-chain omega-3 fatty acid from Marine Phytoplankton." Come on. I'm sure the intentions were good, but come on. Can you picture Homo ergaster or Homo habilis combing the ocean for phytoplankton? Phytoplankton? Phyto-freaking-plankton? I can't. And the thing that makes fish oil so special isn't really the omega-3's. You can get that from flax seeds. It's the DHA and EPA that make it so special. And there is also recent archaeological data that suggests a correlation between the eruption in Homo's brain size and access to fish.
But there is no need to go into more detail. This is just an example to keep in mind for those who eat raw for the same reasons I do. Of course, if your motivations and philosophies are different and you feel the need to eat some phytoplankton, be my guest. You can even have my share.