While I agree with what you have to say Andrew and am aware of the environmental issues I find is bizarre that everyone associates meat with grain. I know it is the reality commercially speaking where the two are synonymous but naturally speaking there is no cow that clears land, cultivates corn, harvests it, processes it and then eats it. Cows eat grass. It’s what their digestive apparatus is designed to do. We live in a mixed up world where the animals people eat are eating food they have not evolved to eat. So people eat sick animals, get sick and then blame it on meat as opposed to the unnatural farming method.
Which is why I’m unsurprised that there are intelligent people like you showing others the dangers of eating meat. Generally speaking there are problems with meat and processed meat products. However my reaction to the same problems you see is different to yours. I eat animals that have eaten and lived the way they naturally should. Thus I don’t eat meat that has been fed grains. I just wonder how much consideration you've given to this avenue of thinking?
Nor do I eat processed wheat products such as bread and pasta for reasons I outline in a
recent article on my blog regarding weight loss. I’m not sure if you are aware but unsprouted grains contain phytic acid. Way back in 1964 a study found boys in Iran and Egypt had severely underdeveloped testicles. Tests showed that they had extreme zinc deficiency despite the plentiful consumption of zinc in their diet. The study discovered that while the bread the boys ate contained a great deal of zinc it was bound by phytates and so useless. Phytic acid, which is in unsprouted grain (meaning all modern grain products) is a vitamin and mineral blocker.
It's a strange world we live in.
Stephen