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womanofthehills

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21. Latest studies - grassfed beef is very healthy
Wed Feb 14, 2024, 05:05 PM
Feb 2024

And eggs from free range chickens contain every vitamin & mineral.

You have to eat a ton of legumes (often GMO & loaded with pesticides) to to get the proteins & amino acids you get from meat and eggs.

I’m lucky to live in ranch country & buy my meat from a friend - grass fed/grass finished and raise my own chickens for eggs. My favorite lunch is meat and eggs with fruit and vegetables.

Thousands of people online all reporting how their health improved big time on the carnivore diet.

No company is going to build a biomass plant that has to be fed continuously when wind farms can now produce 3 times as much energy as a nuclear reactor. We fought a biomass plant in our community - they wanted to cut trees down south of us to burn and then have huge trucks bring wood to the biomass plant all day long. Biomass is so far below wind & solar .

“Red Meat Is Not a Health Risk. A New Study Slams Years of Shoddy Research.”

https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2022/11/14/red_meat_is_not_a_health_risk_a_new_study_slams_years_of_shoddy_research_864601.html

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Yes, many environmentalists wont give up meat. Never mind the cruelty mucifer Feb 2024 #1
If they're not willing to at least cut back significantly redqueen Feb 2024 #2
I enjoy meat and would like to continue Tickle Feb 2024 #3
I would like to eat pizza and french fries often redqueen Feb 2024 #4
We are talking about cutting back ....not stopping. nt GuppyGal Feb 2024 #7
Is it our consumption of meat or Americans demand that each grocery store offer an abundance of meat to choose from ms liberty Feb 2024 #5
Industrial agriculture is a huge problem redqueen Feb 2024 #9
Plant based Protein sources tear my lower GI up. ProudMNDemocrat Feb 2024 #6
Imo those who can tolerate those sources of protein redqueen Feb 2024 #8
Red meat is inflammatory Mossfern Feb 2024 #10
Yes, health is another reason I'm switching to a whole food plant based diet. I spent years cutting back redqueen Feb 2024 #11
Thanks for the link! Mossfern Feb 2024 #14
Hope you find something you like! redqueen Feb 2024 #17
Latest studies - grassfed beef is very healthy womanofthehills Feb 2024 #21
That old study is misleading at best. redqueen Feb 2024 #24
Do you eat lentils, beans etc? MissB Feb 2024 #12
Yes, I eat legumes, but now I need to stay away from gluten too Mossfern Feb 2024 #13
That Spanish soup sounds delicious redqueen Feb 2024 #18
From The Oregonian MissB Feb 2024 #22
Thank you!! redqueen Feb 2024 #25
Reduce, Renew, Reuse, Recycle Torchlight Feb 2024 #15
Yes that's exactly how I think about it too redqueen Feb 2024 #19
Aside from burning fossil fuels, agriculture is the most environmentally destructive thing we humans do. hunter Feb 2024 #16
Heck yes - rewilding gives me so much hope! redqueen Feb 2024 #20
Also, meat is awful. NameAlreadyTaken Feb 2024 #23
As are the things that are done to animals to get it ... redqueen Feb 2024 #26
The truth about carbon reduction... Personal behaviors must change. Thunderbeast Feb 2024 #27
Cattle industry will lobby hard to stop anything that reduces their market share. Xolodno Feb 2024 #28
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