The Earth's Shifting Crust by Charles Hapgood - wire of information

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EARTH'S SHIFTING CRUST
the moment, I would like to point out simply that some sort
of abrupt climatic change is required. This conclusion is re-
inforced by the results of recent research in the frozen foods
industry. This has produced evidence that throws additional
doubt on the theory of the preservation of the bodies of
mammoths by individual accidents. It seems that the preservation
of meat by freezing requires some rather special condi-
tions. Herbert Harris, in an article on Birdseye in Science
Digest, writes:
What Birdseye had proved was that the faster a food can be frozen
at "deep" temperatures of around minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit, the
less chance there is of forming the large ice crystals that tear down
cellular walls and tissues leaving gaps through which escape the
natural juices, nutriment and flavor (202:3).
Harris quotes one of Birdseye's engineers as saying:
. . . take poultry giblets; they can last eight months at 10 below zero,
but "turn" in four weeks above it. Or lobster. It lasts 24 months at
10 below but less than twenty days at anything above. . . .
(202:5).
In the light of these statements the description of the
frozen mammoth flesh given by F. F. Herz is very illumi-
nating. Quoted by Bassett Digby
in his book on the mam-
moth, Herz said that "the flesh is fibrous and marbled with
fat." It 'looks as fresh as well frozen beef." And this remark
is made of flesh known to have been frozen for thousands of
years! Some people have reported that they
have been made
ill by eating this preserved meat, but occasionally, at least, it
is really perfectly edible. Thus Mr. Joseph Barnes, former
correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, remarked
on the delicious flavor of some mammoth meat served to him
at a dinner at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow in the
i93o's (24).
What Birdseye proved was that meat to remain in edible
condition must be kept very coldnot merely frozen, but at
a temperature far below the freezing point. What the edible
mammoth steaks proved was that meat had been so kept in
at least a few cases for perhaps 10,000 to 15,000 years in the