https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/w...-onward-journey

Gee, I think pigs are also ancient, and also got eaten. The fastidious squeemy vapors are appropriate for industrial farming, which shouldn't be allowed. And of course we have the most, we're the capital of capitalism.

If family farms came back, that would satisfy the people who want a rural lifestyle, AND the people who don't. There's no law that the super-rich should arrange things only for their own satisfaction.

Dr. Davis, in Wheatbelly, found those ancient grains. But they are still grains. There's nothing magic about them except stored easily to make beer and bread.

And of course, that was reason enough

I think it's part of the hardcore vegan following the profit, also. Why else with would universities like Harvard and Tufts ignore science as they create false studies.

They don't have to disclose their belief system. But if it distorts their science... maybe they should?

Wow, that book would be a great read!!

As I have a small farm. With just a few farm animals, the lessons of self sufficiency brings broader views.

And conflict.

When land is wooded, the trees need to come down to develop grasslands. Trees need to be kept strategically. And number of varieties increased. The deer eat shrubs and leaves they can reach; a closed canopy kills off lower branches, and kills the grasses. The trees are good firewood and provides shade. But not food, other than nuts.

Building pasture is critical to producing feed animals. They graze an area, drop fertilizer and move on. At keast they did prior to fences separating properties. These days smaller zones for a couple days of feeding is a mimic; move the grazers every couple of days. Let grasses/ shrub regrow between visits. The cattle) sheep/ geese/ chickens, do the mowing.

As for other foods, when food is scarce, having apples in root cellar is reassuring. When winter squash is stacked up for winter storage, the worries of food decreases. Add onions, potatoes.

Eating just meat is a modern luxury. One I indulge in. Butfood scarcity and self sufficiency demands all options.

Im fortunate to live in a sweet spot. The weather allows not just apples and pears, but peaches ,too. The grasses love the cool temps of fall, winter and spring. Hot dry summers can send some grasses into dormancy. Decreasing feed for the grazers.

Having a variety of food stuffs, like veg, fruits nuts and meats, is critical to fill a larder and a root celler. The luxury of just meat disappears.

Take care of the land. Its what gives the meat and veg, fruit and nuts and berries.

Sustainable farming should be the only ways allowed. That would take care of factory farms and the plight of the rural people, all at once!

I could be happy on a pound of grass-fed hamburger a day. Probably not eaten all at once. And that would be a reasonable food budget for one person. If I add a slice of cheese on top for each burger, I've increased many nutrients for less than doubling the price. Certainly a diet of rice and beans would be cheaper, but it wouldn't contribute the array of nutrition I need to recover from my decades of poor nutrition, and what it did to me as a result. I'm still at the age where I pay for prescriptions, and the costs of autoimmune drugs are staggering. That's where I'm saving money

Since DH and I suffer from fatigue, self-sufficiency is not an option as it would have been when we were young and strong. Now, we only need to get half of it back to have a healthy seniorhood. Between time compression of years of disaster combined with being sick for so long, I have not felt my age in a linear progression in a long time. In all ways, it is a noble goal.

My own theories hold that we are omnivores who need animal food. Like carbohydrates themselves, plants are not necessary for life, but they are cheap and filling fun. They are awesome for culinary enjoyment, as phrased by the book, Toxic Superfoods.

I think we developed to live in widely varying regions of weather and possible crops. All the way to the Inuit or Masai or other places we can glimpse of how it was before. And still is. If they eat the Western Industrialized Diet, they get sicker, faster.

It's the enzyme pattern, which I first saw discussed in the book Death by Food Pyramid. The first half explained how we got off track. The second half is how to get back on again, and not by declaring any one way the best. Only by explaining why there really is A Way for each one of us. All I am certain of is that it ranges from vegetarian to carnivore. There's room for everyone's ancestors. We have to figure out what kind got handed down to us.

The closest we have is DNA suggestions. Though early work suggests people inherit the genes to be successful on plant-based diets. Which means it can't possibly be good for everyone. The food pyramid wasn't, but there were varying levels of damage. I think us here, who have proven ourselves to be carb-sensitive by nature, were the front runners when it came to getting hurt by a plant-based diet.

It was more balanced with the Four Food Groups, which is what I learned. Animal foods equal to plant foods, and leeway to choose your servings. My DNA is 97% places with short growing seasons. If I balance my plate accordingly, I get healthier.

My anxiety improved after three weeks on Atkins. Before I lost anything but water weight. Everyone should eat to their enzymes.

It's all about the bio-availability.

Yhe reality is that we cannot live without factiry food. The acres of wheat. The feedlots of cows. The mass pig farming. These developed because it was cost effective.

We cannot suddenly drop these methods. That is catastrophic. One country tried forcing organic only and it resulted in severe good shortages.

Vote with your dollar.

Support the production of better quality food and production will increease.

Exactly. I started with half, but now, 90% of the meat, eggs, and dairy we eat is NOT factory farmed. I discovered that, in my area, choosing organic products dodged a lot of the UPF we've been warned about.

Once I tamed my appetite with Atkins, and currently supporting a smaller body so I need less, means I can eat smaller portions when I get better quality. To get more satiation and nutrition.

And my autoimmune illness is fussy. In general, it recognizes that plants are trying to kill me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1c...owCarbDownUnder
Famous Dr. Chaffee lecture on Youtube!

From years of ill health my plant defenses have been so eroded I save a lot of money by not buying grains and produce. Those always had low satiation scores for me, so in a sense, they were wasted money.

By supporting the kinds of foods we want to eat, and recognizing the poisonous nature of today's foods, I can only think of how I felt on premixed protein shakes with lots of additives, fillers, binders, and other chemical concoctions.

And how I feel now, using only Naked Whey protein and real foods to make my protein smoothies. It's a dramatic difference, enough to keep me reading every label

I can find organic foods in my tiny downtown supermarket, which is not hip or trendy and neither are the customers. That money pressure is what works.

That's also activism.

I have also found that with a garden and a few food animals, there comes a better understanding of food and production.

These days meals are very simple: meat and veg. Could be a stir fry. Or just meat. Veggies are sauted or microwaved. Occasionally raw: lettuces and tomatoes and cukes.

Food prep is real meats. Quick fry, bbq or stewed. Added veggies spices and always onions. Simple fare. Quick, easy, yummy. Cook with what we have. Which lends itself to stir frying. Fry up meat. And stew the tough meats.

One son adds eggs to his stirfry. The other who likes rice with his, microwaves a big pyrex bowl of rice in water.

A home garden is easy and requires a small space. Chickens need a small space. Time to bring back the Victory gardens. Time to have a few chickens to eats the scraps. Get some eggs in return. Or a roast.