Eat more beef, save the planet.
Okay…that’s a very simplistic thought and grand start to this post but the idea is a solid one. Eating beef IS good for you and the planet but only if the animals are raised right.
If you’ve watched Food, Inc. or read Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma you’ve seen the negative side of cheap meat. Factory farms are taking nature and systematizing it in such a way that every aspect of the process is ultimately a negative to the planet. The list of offenses, wrongs and horrors in factory farming is so long and depressing that it [...]
Got my weekly dose of The Paleo Diet Update today and the paragraph about vitamin D deficiency jumped out big. The info in the Paleo Diet is always an affirmation of what I believe and the info within is timely. Always.
A conversation with a family member just this past Friday had her mention her low levels of vitamin D so that part of this article popped out to me and I wondered at the prevalence of bone problems within society that we are “fixing” on the back end with pharmaceutical prescriptions rather than on the front end with food prescriptions.
Another [...]