Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>]

On 07/07/2010 01:23 PM, Tradingpost wrote:
> . . .it's obvious that a constant diet of red meat is harmful.

I'm not sure it's obvious at all. I've read that the Lewis and Clark 
party ate about nine pounds of meat per man per day--and little 
else--during their two-year expedition, with no apparent ill effects. It 
was common for the "mountain men" who followed them to subsist on little 
other than hunted meats (like the Plains Indians from whom they 
learned). There are many other examples of almost exclusively meat diets 
on which the eaters thrived.

Of course, they weren't eating CAFO meats, were they? Nor am I 
advocating a meat-only diet. But I don't think the evidence is at all 
sound that eating "a constant diet of red meat"--typical of hunting 
cultures where game was plentiful--constitutes a health disaster.

~Harvey


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