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A few weeks back, a friend told me that his better half called me a “Food Elitist”. Now, you may be thinking “What sort of awful transgression could you have committed?” Or you may be thinking “Well, you are.” Or you may not be thinking at all, a state that I often find [...]

Tags: grain-fed, grass-fed, organic

Who wants chimichurri?. Photo courtesy of Reluctant Gourmet
I finally got some time to sit down and write this next article in the Traditional Diets series. This week, we’re heading down to the land of meat, meat, and more meat, otherwise known as Argentina. This is going to be a delicious, carnivorous adventure.
History [...]

Tags: Argentina, chimichurri, grain-fed, grass-fed, red meat, South America

Here’s a brief Q&A on World’s Healthiest Foods that is very similar to what I have to say about organic versus conventional: If I can’t afford to buy organic vegetables and fruits, can I still be healthy?
My take is that organic is better than conventional, but conventional produce is better than no produce at all. [...]

Tags: avocado, broccoli, grain-fed, grass-fed, organic, red meat, Whole Foods

Have you been taking your fish and cod liver oil? You should, as this study shows that omega-3s protect against Parkinson’s disease, a degenerative disease marked by the death of dopamine-producing neurons in the brain.
Parkinson’s disease is caused by the progressive death of the neurons responsible for producing dopamine, a neurotransmitter closely linked with [...]

Tags: fat, fish oil, grain, grain-fed, grass-fed, Obesity and Disease, omega 3, omega 6, Parkinson's, polyunsaturated, saturated, seafood, vegetable oil

After my post on staph a few weeks back, Joe sent me this article from Salon: Is the way we raise our food giving us MRSA? (MRSA = Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) It’s an interesting article with a slant that I’ve never considered before.
Bacteria typically become resistant to antibiotics through exposure to them. … [...]

Tags: antibiotics, CAFO, E.coli, grain-fed, grass-fed, MSRA, staph

Joe Matasic turned me onto this article in the post on Veganism. It is a very damning article about Smithfield’s Foods. It’s a Rolling Stone article, so some of it must be taken with a grain of salt as RS isn’t known for being “fair and balanced” (you know, like Fox News….hahaha!!!). [...]

Tags: CAFO, grain-fed, grass-fed, pork

I ran across this article today and after reading it, I am incensed. Here’s the headline: U.S. government fights to keep meatpackers from testing all slaughtered cattle for mad cow.
The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease. The Agriculture Department [...]

Tags: corporate, grain-fed, grass-fed

E.Coli at Taco Bell; Green Onions Blamed
There was another E.Coli outbreak last week, this time at Taco Bell, that bastion of healthy eating. Officials have traced the outbreak to green onions. Given that I’ve written about E.Coli once before during the spinach outbreak, I won’t go into all the details again. But [...]

Tags: E.coli, grain-fed, Taco Bell

Dr. Michael Eades, coauthor of Protein Power and Protein Power Lifeplan (excellent books, by the way), has written two excellent articles on his blog regarding the recent E.coli outbreak. The first one is Corn-eating-cow crap chuckin’ up your insides blues and the second is More on E. coli O157:H7.
Dr. Eades makes several very important [...]

Tags: E.coli, grain-fed, grass-fed