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The Monkey Chow Diet Experiment

June 8th, 2006

Self-experimental dieting does not begin and end with Seth Roberts, it seems. MetaFilter points us toward the blog of AngryMan, who is video blogging his experiment with a diet comprised entirely of a pelletized, “nutritionally complete” primate food product. That’s for primates, not made of them. The food? Monkey Chow.

I happen to be familiar with this stuff because I worked with animals many years ago. We used to feed Purina Monkey Chow soaked in water to ailing birds and as a supplemental treat for rats. Monkey chow pellets are about the size of a small charcoal briquette, beige in color, surprisingly light and even more porous than a pumice stone. The brand AngryMan is using is ZuPreem, but I’d bet it is similar.

AngryMan is taking a somewhat tongue-in-cheek attitude about this, but apparently the main things he’s noticed are a pronounced craving for meat and a worsening of the aroma of his, um, movements.

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The Monkey Chow Diaries

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