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Anyone on here who talks to me semi-frequently knows that I haven't been eating mammals or birds lately. The only meat I have eaten in the past month and a half or so is fish, and lots of it. My reasoning was shakey and uninformed at best, but I had this gut feeling that I probably shouldn't. Recently, however, my diet is going to have to undergo a revision.
Cows and Chickens are raised on a farm inside of industrial bins and fed the entrails of their own species, whereas fish are usually just swimming around in the ocean when one day they are rudely yoinked out of the ocean and eaten.
I can go along with fishing, man has evolved as an omnivore with a taste for fish. I live in Michigan, a land with many lakes, rivers, and fish. It only makes sense that i eat the little guys hand over fist. Man evolved to use spears, then nets, then poles to pull the little buggers out of the pond and throw them on a hot fire. Fish mostly eat the things they have eaten for the past few thousand years and the diet of the fish isn't tampered with by humans (although there has been some "progress" lately that has allowed salmon, a carnivore, to feed on corn. ick.)
Man has not evolved to eat cows that eat the fat of other cows. Man has not evolved to eat cows that eat corn. Cows aren't supposed to eat cow fat and corn. They are supposed to eat grass!
Corn is fed to cows because of its low low price (don'tcha love capitalism) but the corn causes the cows rhumen(SP?), the cows main digestive organ, to become overly acidic. This can cause the stomach lining to erode and cause major liver damamge. So we give the cow medications that allow it to eat and properly digest corn. Mainly so it doesn't die before it hits slaughter weight.
Here's where the change in my diet comes in... There are cows that are raised in pastures and fed on grass! Some of these pastures aren't overgrazed and eroded too! You can't usually buy this meat at your local supermarket, but the stuff is out there. They eat the food they were meant to eat, thus becoming the food WE were meant to eat! I can support this. I can eat a burger from pasture grazed cows.
Pasture grazed cows are said to have high levels of Omega 3 fatty acids, fatty acids that found most often in fish and are said to greatly improve cognitive power. Some research even suggests that maybe red meat isn't bad for your heart at all, if the red meat is raised on a grass diet like it is supposed to be.
So I shall revise my "no mammals or poultry" diet to include mammals and poultry that is pasture-grazed.
Now all I have to do is find a place that sells the stuff and fire up the grill!
Cows and Chickens are raised on a farm inside of industrial bins and fed the entrails of their own species, whereas fish are usually just swimming around in the ocean when one day they are rudely yoinked out of the ocean and eaten.
I can go along with fishing, man has evolved as an omnivore with a taste for fish. I live in Michigan, a land with many lakes, rivers, and fish. It only makes sense that i eat the little guys hand over fist. Man evolved to use spears, then nets, then poles to pull the little buggers out of the pond and throw them on a hot fire. Fish mostly eat the things they have eaten for the past few thousand years and the diet of the fish isn't tampered with by humans (although there has been some "progress" lately that has allowed salmon, a carnivore, to feed on corn. ick.)
Man has not evolved to eat cows that eat the fat of other cows. Man has not evolved to eat cows that eat corn. Cows aren't supposed to eat cow fat and corn. They are supposed to eat grass!
Corn is fed to cows because of its low low price (don'tcha love capitalism) but the corn causes the cows rhumen(SP?), the cows main digestive organ, to become overly acidic. This can cause the stomach lining to erode and cause major liver damamge. So we give the cow medications that allow it to eat and properly digest corn. Mainly so it doesn't die before it hits slaughter weight.
Here's where the change in my diet comes in... There are cows that are raised in pastures and fed on grass! Some of these pastures aren't overgrazed and eroded too! You can't usually buy this meat at your local supermarket, but the stuff is out there. They eat the food they were meant to eat, thus becoming the food WE were meant to eat! I can support this. I can eat a burger from pasture grazed cows.
Pasture grazed cows are said to have high levels of Omega 3 fatty acids, fatty acids that found most often in fish and are said to greatly improve cognitive power. Some research even suggests that maybe red meat isn't bad for your heart at all, if the red meat is raised on a grass diet like it is supposed to be.
So I shall revise my "no mammals or poultry" diet to include mammals and poultry that is pasture-grazed.
Now all I have to do is find a place that sells the stuff and fire up the grill!