Posted on 01/30/2021 6:01:42 AM PST by karpov
Choosing to avoid meat and eat a plant-based diet has never seemed so virtuous and necessary. Between the intrinsic cruelty of industrial livestock production and livestock’s climate footprint—estimated by the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization to be 14.5% of all greenhouse gases world-wide, significantly greater than that of plant agriculture—it has become increasingly difficult to defend the place of meat and animal-sourced foods in our diets. Jonathan Safran Foer, the novelist turned animal-rights activist, may have best captured this thinking in his 2019 nonfiction book, “We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast.” As he writes, “We cannot keep the kind of meals we have known and also keep the planet we have known. We must either let some eating habits go or let the planet go. It is that straightforward, that fraught.”
An essential part of this argument is the proposition that animal-sourced foods, and particularly red and processed meats, aren’t just bad for the planet but harmful for the people who eat them. As the journalist Michael Pollan famously urged in his 2008 bestseller “In Defense of Food,” that is why we should eat “mostly plants.” This has become the lone piece of dietary counseling on which most nutritional authorities seemingly agree. It creates a win-win proposition: By eating mostly (or even exclusively) fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes, while getting our proteins and fats from plant-based sources, we maximize our likelihood of living a long and healthy life while also doing what’s right for the planet.
But is it that simple? A growing body of evidence suggests it isn’t, at least not for many of us.
The other food movement that has won increased acceptance over the past decade is the low-carbohydrate, high-fat ketogenic diet—keto, for short
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Saw a study recently that looked at British children on vegan diets vs children who ate meat. The researchers were surprised to discover that the vegan kids had lower bone density but also lower levels of vitamin A and (I think) D.
So much for that crap being healthy.
Further, Dr. Michael Eades:
‘Paleopathology and the Origins of the Low-carb Diet’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY2v6AnEyuU&feature=youtu.be
“We didn’t evolve to eat meat.
We evolved because we ate meat.”
Healthy animal protein and fat give you good moods and excellent brain function. No other food does this. Our brain is fat.
See the video in #62.
Particularly around the 14-15 minute mark.
I am mostly carnivore but you cannot pry my 92% chocolate out of my hands til I’m dead.
I can’t just watch videos whenever, but I am sure I’d agree. Thanks.
Interesting!
“Research indicates that the content of oxalate in forage can be controlled by fertilizer application.”
Oxalate Accumulation in Forage Plants: Some Agronomic, Climatic and Genetic Aspects
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.975.6865&rep=rep1&type=pdf
My wife lost about 30 in the same way and time.
Tri-tip is better than bacon!
Please put me on your ping list TY
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