| Meat and fat meet all the criteria of addictive drugs. Of course they have a long history of affiliation with man's and many other omnivore's diets. However well cooked meats where a large part of the volume is cloaked in nitrates, or which is preserved with nitrates, and is laced with industrial chemicals and toxins which have been identified as persistent organic pollutants, and which is raised with hormones and antibiotics designed to fatten cattle ---- this meat is not the same meat as eaten by carnivores or by man in times gone by. And probably not in the same quantity. High fat diets are endured by people like the Masai, but a considerable portion of their fat is not cooked and also it is not exposed to pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, herbicides, or other environmental toxins. As well the Masai consume a lot of anti oxidants such as red bush tea and walk 20 miles a day, enlarging their arteries considerably. They still get plaque. It is not enuff to tell people just to exercise more to endure red meat. They need to doa number of things, and chiefest among these things is reduce calories and exposure to toxins such as POP's. Cattle and poutry today get far more cancer than they did in the past, from the testimony of many farmers. The only difference can be what is in the feed. And we know what that is. The eskimo ate a lot of meat too. But like the Indian, whose diet of high fat Pemmican, the actual staples of these people for much of the fly season was laced with forage of which there is found plenty on the Labrador coast as well as the north shore of the Territories. The basic staple of the Indian in North America were corns, beans and squash, all of which they cultivated. So they were a lot more vegetarian and omnivorous than popular culture gives them credit. Due to the principle of biomagnification and where toxins reside in a body, any high fat animal has many toxins in high concentrations. |
