Comments on: A Primal Primer: Animal Fats

By: Is Conventional Wisdom Set in Stone? | Mark's Daily Apple

Is Conventional Wisdom Set in Stone? | Mark's Daily Apple — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:16:41 +0000

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Contest: Show Your Breakfast. Win 5 Gallons of Fat. | Mark's Daily Apple — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:33:27 +0000

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By: My Health and Fitness

My Health and Fitness — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:06:49 +0000

[...] functions. Roughly half of our cell membrane structure is composed of saturated fat, and saturated animal fats, like butter or fatty organ meats, contain huge amounts of essential fat-soluble vitamins (K2, A, [...]

By: reamz

reamz — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:10:01 +0000

i managed to get a huge slab (3 kgs! – which I had to lug back on the train home along with a couple of kilos meat and raw milk) of WATER BUFFALO FAT. Most is in the freezer, but i rendered some today. It has a unique flavour – much tastier than beef fat which i find tasteless

By: George

George — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:48:09 +0000

Thanks for all of your replies.

I think I will continue to be a vegetarian for the reasons I mentioned and for environmental reasons too.

However I have started eating more eggs.

what do you think?

By: Trinkwasser

Trinkwasser — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:12:45 +0000

Again there’s a world of difference between meat from animals stuffed with grain, with lousy lipids and poor fats, and shot full of hormones and antibiotics, and meat from free living grass fed animals which need minimal medical intervention, and once again the “research” takes little notice of the high level of carbs and the quality of diet as a whole.

Processed meatlike substances may be an indicator of a diet with toxic levels of carbs and chemical flavourings and a lack of vegetables. Real Meat may be an indicator of a diet containing high levels of nutritious foods, yet the “research” makes no distinction.

I agree about the “factory farming” fortunately so does my butcher, I can actually see the animals I’m about to eat in their natural habitat since he will tell me which farms he sources from.

By: Peggy

Peggy — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:17:23 +0000

I LOVED Quorn, especially in the UK where there are way more flavours available. search this site for “soy”, etc & read about “fake meat”. Plus read the ingredients of what you’re eating. I found out that alot of what I was eating was wheat gluten.

I agree whole-heartedly with your reasons for obstaining from meat as they are very similar to mine. I tend to stick to wild-caught fish, local eggs, & small-farm fowl & meat. I’ll next be looking in to cow-sharing (or something like that). I am fortunate that even though I live in a small town, we have a local produce farmer & she has started a farmer’s market in the summers. A nearby bison farmer sells his products there & I have started to buy from him.

Keep researching! and keep questioning…

By: George

George — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:34:16 +0000

I’m personally a vegetarian because of the way in which animals are bred for slaughter.

I certainly think that having chickens in cages and machines that kill them is not primal.

My vegetarian policy is that if you catch it yourself then you can eat it.

Thanks for your reply. I’m considering farming my own animals but lack the land and the money. Why should I avoid the fake meats like Quorn and Tofu etc.?

By: Peggy

Peggy — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:10:59 +0000

Don’t worry about being a vegetarian, George! I, & many others who frequent this blog/site have made “the switch”. I was vegetarian for over 10 yrs. But everything here that I’ve read just makes too much sense. So I “eased” back in to omnivourism. You may or may not choose to eat meat, but whatever you decide try & stay away from fake food. You will thank yourself sooner than you think! Stay away from fake dairy, fake meat, fat-free, hard-to-pronounce ingredients, etc. None of us here are out to lecture you or anyone else – we are here to help, inform, share with, encourage, & befriend each other.

By: George

George — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:51:46 +0000

doesn’t sound too good for me being a vegetarian.

now before people start lecturing me about meat (I realise this is probably the worst place to say I’m vegetarian), I am vegetarian for slightly peculiar reasons.