I agree about voting against CAFO-raised animals, but I think purchasing humanely raised products are a much stronger vote than abstaining completely. Your purchase increases the demand for such products so more stores will carry them and consequently more people will become aware of them.

In particular, I love to purchase products marked “Certified Humane” by the Humane Farm Animal Care organization. Right now I can only find eggs and bacon locally that are Certified Humane, but by buying those I’m providing the market a nudge toward supplying more.

Anyway, here is my post reproduced here, in response to Eades’ 2-part series and some of the comments on his blog that insulted vegetarians. I’d be interested in thoughts from people interested in a good, honest debate.

I’m a vegetarian who completely agrees that we evolved to eat meat.

But I’m also a consumer in today’s society, and when I buy and eat meat, I am supporting a horribly broken system that is polluting our planet and our health. Wile and/or pasture-raised meat is unquestionably healthy, but factory-farmed meat, I’m not so sure about. It’s definitely not environmentally healthy, and it’s definitely not humane. I stopped eating meat because I wanted to “vote” for change to the way animals are raised and the way meat is produced.

It’s easy to say “those vegetarians are idiots” if you assume that all of us truly believe humans are herbivores. But some of us are as smart or even smarter than you, and have given this a lot more thought, and can manage to lead healthy lives without meat. But you shut down any productive dialogue and fail to reach any new understanding when you take that approach.

And yes, I agree, I could only buy pasture-raised meat and/or hunt for meat myself. Perhaps I will do that at some point. But my health hasn’t suffered for lack of meat. I am able to stay away from processed grains, trans fats and PUFAs, I get a good amount of mono- and saturated fats and protein. I, along with many other vegetarians, an do what we think is right to help change the system while remaining very healthy. In fact, I would hazard a guess that vegetarians who eat the way I do are much healthier than meat-eaters who rely on CAFO-raised animals.

http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2004nl/040100puproteinoverload.htm

Or…well…an objective analysis would be fine, too…

I’d like to pass an analysis on to friends. I know someone who is following this guy’s diet for health reasons (suspected leaky gut). As jacked up as the article is, I don’t see how following McDoug’s diet can be in any way a good thing.

–Michael

What is the reciepe to your Green Monster drink? I really love your primal posts…we are so fortunate to recieve all of your amazing knowledge.
All the best.