Just yesterday—not even a week after the scientifically rigorous meta-analysis exonerating red meat study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine from McMaster University I came across the following article:
‘Canadian doctor says blowback to meat study is ‘hysterical,’ more discourse needed’
In the article, lead supervisory professor for the study, Gordon Guyatt says he knew the series of papers he and his colleagues published in the Annals of Internal Medicine this week would elicit blowback.
But he did not expect anything like the widespread torrent of condemnation that continues to stream forth, among them letters to the editor excoriating the methodology and a petition by a Washington-based doctors’ group to retract the work because it allegedly “promotes physical harm to those who follow its dangerous advice.”
“It’s completely predictable and they’re doing themselves no favours from my point of view about these sort of hysterical statements about: It shouldn’t be published, let’s keep it out of public view, let’s not have scientific discourse operate as it should operate,” says Guyatt, a celebrated professor and researcher at Hamilton’s McMaster University who supervised a team of global researchers.
“It’s hysterical. It’s a hysterical response.”
Exactly the right terminology….and exactly the type of irrational response one would expect when a mainstream belief based upon decades of highly profitable mythology, misinformation and disinformation gets skewed by actual (rare) rigorous science.
Gordon Guyatt supervised a research group with a panel of 14 members from seven countries for this new meat study.
In a superb follow-up point, Guyatt stated: “So far, nobody has cared about the downside of quality of life reduction associated with decreasing or stopping eating meat.”
CONSIDERING THE OTHER SIDE OF THE EQUATION:
Indeed, in June of just this year (2019) a UK research scientist dared to ask just such a question in the following article published in BMJ Nutrition:
See full article: https://nutrition.bmj.com/content/early/2019/09/03/bmjnph-2019-000037
Choline is but one nutrient among many found either exclusively or almost exclusively in foods of animal origin (and/or would have been gotten exclusively from animal source foods during our prehistoric evolutionary development in the manner in which humans are designed to obtain them). We also have additional animal source nutrients such as B12, CoQ10, CLA, EPA/DHA, true vitamin A (retinol), D3, K2 (MK-4), L-carnitine, L-carnosine and cholesterol (yes cholesterol–which is in fact a nutrient and not a toxin, and is required by virtually every cell in the human body, as well as for the formation of healthy bile, healthy cell membrane permeability/integrity, normal cellular receptor activity, the synthesis of all steroidal hormones, the repair of arterial damage, and the normal, healthy functioning of the human brain…. Among many other things). Red meat and the organs/tissues associated with animals supplying red meat to our evolving diets for over more than 2.6 million years are an incredibly important source of all of these nutrients (as long as the animals supplying these foods for us were allowed to eat a diet that was healthy and natural for them—consisting exclusively of green forage)—and much more.
Needless to say, the response from the vegan quarter regarding the legitimate concerns posed by the study’s author were swift and indignant, accusing them of industry funding in the face of the legitimate and well referenced concerns listed, even as there was no sign of actual funding of the research from potential economically vested sources listed in the article’s disclosures.
In other recent research pointing to issues associated with lowering (or worse yet, eliminating) red meat consumption, the following concerns were published in October of 2019:
See article: https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/334910?fbclid=IwAR0s6dhSjurP4VBvkiRr2nBrVFf3wOS–2Zjhb03wP5lllXoWZT-z1Wkre4
With respect to the above paper, the researchers commented that:
“When we looked at women consuming less than the recommended amount of red meat in our study, we found that they were twice as likely to have a diagnosed depressive or anxiety disorder as those consuming the recommended amount.”
”Even when we took into account the overall healthiness of the women’s diets, as well as other factors such as their socioeconomic status, physical activity levels, smoking, weight and age, the relationship between low red meat intake and mental health remained. ”Interestingly, there was no relationship between other forms of protein, such as chicken, pork, fish or plant-based proteins, and mental health. Vegetarianism was not the explanation either.”
See the full article published in The Telegraph, Monday October 7, 2019 here:
EVOLUTION LEAVES CLUES…RED MEAT LEADS THE WAY ON THE MENU OF OUR ANCESTORS
Read the full article here: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170804082912.htm
Even in the more recent prehistoric Mediterranean region, where one might imagine that easily gotten seafood would have absolutely dominated the human diet…. according to Dr. Marcello Mannino, research scientist and archaeologist at the Department of human evolution at the Max Planck Institute,“The source of the dietary protein consumed [in the late prehistoric mediterranean region] mainly originated from the meat of medium to large terrestrial herbivores.” (i.e., giant aurochs, red deer and wild boar). NOT fish. He is referring to the late Pleistocene, btw, following the major post-glacial changes (and the widespread extinction of woolly mammoths and other megafauna that were taking place at that time). In other words, even where fish was readily available as a food source we still tended to prefer going after fattier red meat.
The notion that a food (i.e., red meat) which has quite literally served to shape us as a species more than any other is somehow all of a sudden “detrimental to our health” defies all rational logic and common sense (and the dictates of more than one branch of science). Furthermore, referring to ruminant animals as a scourge on the environment—animals that once coevolved with and literally blackened the world’s healthy grasslands in the tens of millions, long before we human beings ever came along– is patently absurd, defies all logic and is also demonstrably untrue.
Please see: https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_world_s_deserts_and_reverse_climate_change
Conversely, it is human agricultural activity and especially monocrops that are the #1 devastating scourge upon the earth and all its inhabitants, including us. it is automatically hostile to eco-diversity, the environment AND utterly dependent in the biggest possible manner globally upon the use of severely polluting fossil fuels—all just for starters. The #1 source of deforestation right now in the Amazon rainforest is due to the unbridled promulgation of GMO soybean crops (not grazing cattle). But much in the same way the sugar industry diverted attention from itself by blaming animal fats for the decline in human health, the forces profiting from Big Agribusiness are doing the same in their condemnation of animal source foods…while also handsomely profiting from the worst, least healthy and most damaging possible modes of meat production. In the future, they will happily shift the acquisition of those profits to laboratory grown, genetically modified “meats” that can actually be patented. It’s all part of the plan. I am tempted to refer to it all as madness (and it is)… But the fact that so many are buying into the vegan/environmental propaganda also clearly reflects simply how far removed we have become from the natural environment in which we evolved in the first place. It also speaks to how blatantly malleable we have become to the market forces that seek to shape our perception of ourselves and every aspect of our lives for their own selfish profit and gain.
After all, a diet based upon principles that have consistently shaped and molded us as a species over countless millennia provides us with quite literally the only rational starting place we have to understand what our human dietary requirements truly are, and also where we all need to start in terms of rebuilding the health of our severely health-compromised species today, while there is still time to do so (i.e., before we too go the way of the dinosaurs).
And yet the drum beat of vegetarianism and veganism (with climate change voices chiming into the feverish chorus) continues to grow ever louder–with transnational corporate interests holding the megaphone projecting through all aspects of the mainstream media, bought-and-paid-for academia, and other politics driven by ignorance at best, and blind unbridled avarice, delusional thinking and other nefarious objectives at worst.
THE BIGGEST VICTIMS OF ALL THIS
The most critical time period in any human beings life for quality nutrient density, quality animal fats/essential fatty acids and animal source fat soluble nutrients is without doubt during infancy and childhood. The brain, in particular, but also the body and its immune system is rapidly developing during this time period. Vitamin A intake—TRUE vitamin A (retinol)–gotten only from animal source foods is especially critical for fending off infection and supporting the development of a healthy immune system, among so many other things [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8354037 AND https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12230799. Also read my very thorough, superbly referenced article on Vitamin A here: https://www.primalbody-primalmind.com/vitamin-a-under-attack-down-under/].
A child’s capacity to convert beta-carotene into any amount of true vitamin A (retinol) is effectively nil. In fact, no adult, for that matter, can possibly make sufficient retinol from beta-carotene to meet our adult human dietary and physiological needs. And the uniquely bioavailable zinc amply provided through the consumption of red meat is needed for vitamin A to do its job for the immune system. The worst possible population to subject to a vegetarian/vegan diet is young children. And yet the following is currently happening in the UK and France:
Read the full article here: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/468689-vegetarian-school-children-meal/
This is effectively nutritional genocide. And it’s a growing trend.
Red meat supplies highly significant amounts of the most bioavailable forms of key minerals such as zinc (needed for healthy cognitive function/mood AND in tandem with vitamin A for immune function) and selenium (red meat providing up to half or more of their daily requirements in a single serving of both these incredibly important and commonly deficient minerals), critical heme iron, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus and more. The secretion by the parietal cells of the human stomach of hydrochloric acid acting digestively upon meat’s complete protein additionally facilitates–in an essential way–the ionization and absorption of these key minerals. Red meat also not only supplies the richest natural dietary source for glutathione–human body’s single most critical antioxidant enzyme–it also supplies ample quantities of the 3 amino acids (cysteine, glutamate, and glycine) required to additionally synthesize it internally.
My friend. acclaimed science journalist, author of the excellent and important book, ‘Big Fat Surprise’ and fellow food warrior, Nina Teicholz has done a superlative job–via her Twitter thread–of addressing many of the various issues, plus conflicts of interest of those opposing the red meat meta-analyses study. I encourage everyone to go to the following link to read this brilliant Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/bigfatsurprise/status/1180203160452902913
WHO GAINS…AND WHO LOSES?
The more the controlling forces of the world are threatened, the louder and more hysterical the vested outcry there will be at anything that questions its orthodoxy (which obviously goes well beyond the subject of red meat vs plant-based diets at hand). The control of countless countless billions of dollars by Big Agribusiness, the food industry, pharmaceutical interests (now controlling the big online search engines and social media platforms) and far more are at stake. And make no mistake: These soulless behemoths are playing for keeps. AND in this instance they are insidiously using the well-intentioned, emotional sensibilities of vegetarians/vegans and environmentalists for their own greed-driven and power-hungry purposes. The blind hysteria is being fomented within these otherwise well-intentioned, Industry-infiltrated groups, with little rational consideration of what they’re actually doing… And for whom.
Henry Kissinger was once famously quoted as saying, “Who controls the food supply controls the people….” BINGO.
The more compromised our health by malnutrition (and other profitable things) becomes and the more dumbed down, compromised, addled and smaller our brains become, after all, the easier we are as a society to manage. Plus the more polarized we the people become by hot-button political topics, the more divided/compartmentalized we allow ourselves to become as a society, he more easily we are going to be conquered by these misanthropic interests. And by the way– its working. Nutritional compromise is a potentially powerful, core weapon for asserting utter societal control (just ask Henry Kissinger). After all, if you are addled by cognitive decline, anxiety, depression or even a bit of brain fog… Or if you receive any form of devastating health diagnosis from your doctor do you really give a rat’s behind about, or have the wherewithal to confront those things increasingly compromising our human freedoms, inalienable rights, legitimate environmental interests or anything else that matters in the greater sense of things? Or are you relegated just focusing on mere personal physical and economic survival? In the United States today, the number one source of bankruptcy is, in fact, a bad diagnosis. Poor health and compromised cognitive functioning makes it difficult to care about anything else. And what the heck, all this can be (and is) profitable as hell for major corporate interests, too!
“And the more we eat like livestock, the more likely we are to be treated like livestock.”
I’m just saying.
~ Nora Gedgaudas, CNS, CNT, BCHN
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Amen to all of the above, Nora. Wondering if you are familiar with the work of Dr. Gary Fettke and his reveal of the 7th Day Adventist influence which infuses a lot of Big Food’s government- and media-enabled propaganda. I was floored… here is a link I ran across to a presentation given to Crossfit:
https://www.crossfit.com/health/dr-gary-fettke-the-role-of-nutrition-in-everything
Chilling stuff…