Snow has hit the northeast super early this year and I think many are already in full "Holiday Mode." I've been busy working on the film and a few other exciting projects! In the meantime, I'm getting ready to do some serious cooking and excited to NOT travel for the next little while, so I can hang out with my kids and just be home on the farm, my favorite place to be! Shameless plug for my film project: Looking for an end-of-year gift? My ...Read More
I’m a Dietitian and Here’re 11 Reasons Why I’m Team Meat
Without animals, our entire ecosystem and our health will fall apart. On October 1, 2019 a "controversial" study was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine titled “Effect of Lower versus Higher Read Meat Intake on Cardiometabolic and Cancer Outcomes: A Systemic Review of Randomized Trials”. The review evaluated the data of 12 randomized studies on red meat and health outcomes. Reviewers found there was little to no connection between red ...Read More
Meat is Magnificent: Water, Carbon, Methane & Nutrition
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." - John Muir There was a recent article in The Washington Post entitled "Meat is Horrible", once again vilifying meat, that was full of inaccurate statements about the harm cattle impose on the land, how bad it is for our health, and how it should be taxed. Stories like this are all too common and we’ve absolutely got to change our thinking on ...Read More
Eat Meat: Beat Depression
Anxiety and depression are debilitating, but surmounting research is finding that people who eat meat are less depressed. Approximately 1 in 5 US adults experience mental illness in a given year. Depression, in particular, effects 7.1% of the population, and it is one of the leading causes of disability in people ages 15-44. Although all the underlying causes of depression are not fully understood, research is clearly finding a significant ...Read More
20 Ways EAT Lancet’s Global Diet is Wrongfully Vilifying Meat
The EAT Lancet Commission has just released a new, drastic recommendation for a global dietary shift. Their "flexitarian" diet recommends less than half an ounce of red meat per day, less than one ounce of white meat per day, one ounce of fish a day, 1/4 of an egg, and 9 ounces of milk (or a "dairy equivalent," which would mean about 2oz of cheese) per day. To give you a sense of how small half an ounce is, consider this image of a 4oz steak... ...Read More
