Eating Meat

Eating meat is an important ingredient in diets that work for all of us carnivore and metabolic protein types.

Eating meat will be an important part of our diet plan.

Eating healthy protein is very important to your health and well being. To get healthy protein from the meat you eat, make sure that it comes from a healthy animal.

A healthy animal in one that:

eats a natural diet
isn't caged or corralled
isn't shot full of steroids and antibiotics
and generally doesn't come through the corporate/commercial food supply chain (they do all the above things).

How to get Healthy Protein

Unfortunately, you will have a difficult time getting healthy meat at your local grocery store. They get their supply from the supply chain mentioned above.

Health food stores will have organic meat and it is quite a bit more costly.

The best way I've found to get healthy meat is to purchase an animal from a source you know and trust. I am lucky in that I can buy locally raised 4-H animals or get them from local ranchers.

If you're talking beef, that will be quite a bit of meat. You can go together with friends and relatives to reduce the size of your order. You will have to set it up with a butcher to have the meat cut and wrapped.

Yes, eating healthy takes more effort, but the result is worth it.

Advertising

Organically raised meat is a healthier choice than the common commercially raised animals. You need to be aware that due to money and politics, the word organic when used in advertising has been diluted quite a bit.

A true "free range" animal is one that has plenty of room to roam around (not confined) and forage for food. It is now legal to advertise as "free range" an animal that had access to the outside. It doesn't matter whether or not they ever get there.

Processed Meats

These are convenient for making sandwiches and considered by the uninformed as a good protein source. However, the truth is that processed meats are extremely unhealthy for you.

The additives in processed meats are very detrimental to your body and should not be part of your diet program. They are put in the products for the benefit and profit of the food manufacturers.

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