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Originally Posted by DQueens  On this forum it seems that everyone trying to makeover their diets, and become healthier eaters, are going strictly vegan. . |
not me
Nina Planck: Food Writer & Expert on Farmers' Markets & Local Food Why do I defend real food? Because it's under attack.
Don't you find it odd that the experts blame butter and beef for heart disease, even though heart disease as we know it has only been around since 1912, and we've been eating butter for 30,000 years and beef for 3 million?
Don't you find it funny that the foods in all traditional diets - starting with breast milk - are loaded with saturated fat and cholesterol, yet people who eat these traditional foods liberally don't get heart disease? Nor are they fat or diabetic.
The experts are mistaken. The so-called diseases of civilization - obesity, diabetes, and heart disease - are not caused by real food. The diseases of industrialization - as I call them - are caused by the foods of industrialization.
I eat grass fed meat, poutry, eggs, fish, ...i can't imagine eating vegtarian nor do i think the human body was designed to to so. As NP says, grass fed beef is a hell of a lot healtier than industrialized processed soyburgers....
I can understand having a problem with industrialized food - the way chickens are kept is enough to make a vegtarian out of anyone - just buy humanely slaughtered and raised meat and poultry,