Slanker's Grass-Fed Meat
Nicola, here's my answer:
If one subscribes to the idea that all foods are good for you and that chronic disease (bodies failing) is a natural thing, then you should continue doing what you are doing and what everyone else is doing. But, if you are interested in taking care of your body so that it won't fail, then maybe you should pay a little attention to modern peer-reviewed science. On our web site are links to real scientific reports by Artemis Simopoulos. She is world renown today like Einstein was in his time except her field of focus is nutrition. You can thank her for all the talk about Omega-3 fatty acids that started back in the 1980s. Yes, she's the one. The only reason Omega-3 fatty acids are something folks talk about these days is that Artemis discovered that certain fats are essential for all animal health and the American food system was deficient in one very important essential fat. The reason that occurs is because man invented grain farming and grain is deficient in the Omega 3 fatty acid. So, the more grain-based our food system has become, the more body failures there are in the general population. Every chronic disease you can name is a body failure and every one of them can be traced to eating grain. Even obesity and early maturity in children comes from eating grain.
Now lots of folks doubt that, but millions of animals every year are fattened on grain and are made to mature earlier by being fed grain. But nobody takes all the millions of experiments on animals of all types and relates it to people. (Like for instance, why are veterinarians so busy treating pets with the same diseases that people get?) Not being able to relate these facts together is pretty dumb, huh?
Grass-fed meats taste they way they do because they are loaded with Omega-3 fatty acids like all animal bodies are supposed to be. Also, they are loaded with vitamin E, vitamin A, Beta Carotene, CLA, and the list of nutrients go on and on. All these very important nutrients have flavors. Grain fed meats are low in these very important nutrients and therefore the meats are flavorless. You can say, correctly, that all grain-fed meats are anemic.
Now you can sneer at grass-fed meats all you want, but when I look at Joe Six-pack, I usually see a pretty sick, overweight fellow. But people take on their growing loads of chronic diseases as signs of maturity. In other words they are proud of their sicknesses! And in time if you eat grain, grain-based foods, and grain-fed livestock you will be just like the Joe Six-packs. But I have a different goal. I am focused on quality of life and my body is important since it's what carries me around.
Our web site is loaded with information. Go to the Omega-3 Essay section.
http://slankersgrassfedmeats.com/focusing_on_nutrition.htm Go to Science Links.
http://slankersgrassfedmeats.com/science_underscores_grassfed_meats.htm Check out the reports by Artemis Simopoulos. And keep in mind that America's grain-based food system is feeding 300,000,000 people three meals a day. So it's not a machine that can be turned around in even a few decades. If the USDA told the truth about grain, there would be panic in the streets because there wouldn't be any food to eat in the stores. So the time for the whole truth is decades away yet. But individuals can make a difference. And until the masses are involved the grass-fed industry will be tiny and it won't have the advantages of mass production. So the real food it produces will cost more. Maybe to you, money is more important. So be it. But before you shoot your mouth off much more about grass-fed meats and expose your tremendous ignorance, why don't you look over the fence (read the scientific literature) and then maybe you'll understand why some of us are focused on changing our taste buds to accept our new foods.
There is too much more to tell you, but your reading assignments are already probably beyond what you're willing to do. Plus over the years I've found that trying to educate folks with their heads firmly planted in the sand is futile to say it mildly.
Ted Slanker
http://slankersgrassfedmeats.comThe Real Diet of Man is Very Simple:
http://www.slankersgrassfedmeats.com/the_real_diet_of_man.htmNicola Harrison wrote:
Hi Ted,
I and many others (Lex Rocker...) know all about what you sell, but just as many will say that we/you have no proof; they say that grass-fed meat tastes bad and is just a way of making lots of money...
Please take the trouble to answer, as many people eat just meat and nobody knows for shore what to believe.
Nicola
