>If it drains out certain chemicals in the process then it could be a necessary process. I don't know the answer but I'd be interested in that. I don't know either, but my experience says yes. As I said earlier, I feel a lot better with meat in my diet. I will add, especially red meat. I got really disgusted with big ag for a while and basically ate no meat to speak of for 5 years. Sometimes friends would give us venison. Now we have our own animals.