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 […]
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“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
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The following is a letter to the editor of the New York Times that was never published, so I’m posting it here: To the Editor: Re: Health Leaders Must Focus on the Threats From Factory Farms, May 21, 2017 There is growing scientific and public consensus that industrial agriculture, of plants and animals alike, is
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Worldwide chicken production is up 400% over the last 50 years, while beef production is up 0%, yet we continue to vilify red meat as the cause of our modern health epidemics. In this recent post, I explain how we aren’t eating enough protein and animal flesh is the most bioavailable, nutrient-dense and calorically efficient source. In
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the role of animal protein in the human diet and the environment; specifically, the meat from herbivores like beef, bison, lamb, and goat. Every time I turn around, a new documentary about global warming is telling me to stop eating beef. There are films, books and blogs citing
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Hot off the press: Perdue, America’s third largest producer of standard CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) meat chickens, which already owns Coleman, is now getting into the pork, beef, lamb, and cage-free egg business. They’re buying Niman Ranch, the largest provider of your favorite carnitas to Chipotle. Here’s why I’m concerned, and what you can do: Let’s
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