The Health Weblog
Saving The Planet 1 Video At A Time. Maybe:
So, an increasting percentage of our dietary choices are made for health reasons.
And in a few new edge-cases, also for the chance to help more than just yourself, by reducing the environmental impacts of some farming.
This is the angle taken most recently by Impossible Foods.
But who cares about that? As-usual, the Facts crew is here to give you a fairly-normal [Irish] person’s perspective and tell you how it really is!…
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Can Food Save Planet Earth?:
In this video, Eater’s Kat Odell and Nick Solares introduce us to another salvo in the war to make a better burger with its inventor, Dr. Pat Brown.
This particular version has taken over 5 years to research and launch.
And thanks to some increasingly-fancy food chemistry, Impossible Foods might be getting us a step closer to a more earth-friendly, healthier future.
And while people should have the luxury to eat what they want, and a burger won’t save the planet, every little bit helps…
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-Well maybe not quite that dire; but close. Read on:
The WHO recently put out a report that says basically All red meat, especially the smoked & salted stuff we seem to instinctively-love, is dangerous to your health and either Will or May cause colorectal, and possibly stomach, pancreatic, and prostate cancer.
This is almost exactly the same thing Harvard Medical School put out a few years ago, with very similar conclusions.
So to that end, here are a few things to think about:…
UPDATE!: NYT Finds Counter-Study!
And on a similar note to the EWG List,
What the EFF was Stanford trying to prove with that meta-analysis-study on Organics?
The whole thing was presented to make you feel like Organic is just as bad as regular food and not worth the outlay.
The first thing I’ve always thought about Organic is this: Lower Chemical Load in the Body.
-You get less of less-toxic pesticides, antibiotics, growth-hormones, etc.
-Therefore, there is less of a chance those will STAY in your body and cause problems over time…
I have to admit I was F***ing FLOORED when Harvard released a study that basically says, “If you are within 6 Degrees of Ron Swanson’s bacon-suffused prevailing-wind-fart-contrail, you’re as good as dead.”
But the more I thought of it, the more it seemed like a case of what economists like to call “Statistical-Reacharound-Surprise”, than anything else…
-Although the government spec for it is a bit squishy, the market for ‘Natural’ beef is increasing at about 20% per year.
This is largely due to fears about Mad Cow Disease (BSE). Given the natural/organic market share is presently 1%, that growth rate is still slow.
As the market for ‘Natural’ is increasing, the overall beef market is down from 25.1 billion pounds in 1995 to 24.6 billion pounds this year…
