“Oh my goodness! Heavens to mergatroid!”
I went just over 24 hours without meat.
I had an interesting conversation about eating, and agriculture recently.
I recalled my aunt was cooking some fish with soybean oil.
The smell in the air was off.
Trusting my sense of smell (an instinct) I concluded that soybean oil is unhealthy, poison even.
Trust your instincts.
My nose wasn’t hitting on the fish.
Fish is fine, they are food.
You could eat like your grandparents or great grandparents did, and be healthy as a horse.
Interesting to note they were using bacon grease, butter, lard, and suet, olive oil the only vegetable oil.
That’s the way to go with fats.
Animal fats have human history saying they are healthy.
Vegetable oil has advertising and propaganda saying they are healthy in the face of 50+ years of experience saying otherwise.
We spoke of cholesterol, organic foods, and meat substitutes.
I had made fun of my cousin for purchasing the not a burger from burger king.
I laughed at him for buying not meat at a place which sells meat.
The guy I was talking to pointed out “what is going on with it to make not meat, look, smell, and taste like meat”.
It is my opinion that cholesterol is only worth ignoring completely.
I’ve witnessed adults who stress it, dodging the animal products, and still having it be a “problem”.
Likewise those who disregard it generally are healthier in my eyes.
Testosterone is tied to cholesterol.
I don’t stress, nor will I ever stress dietary cholesterol (again).
I’m not a middle school kid unhealthy per doctor’s orders.
Dietician, what a farce – I lost 38lbs at 14 on my own accord.
I was unhealthy living on grains and low fat.
I became healthy partaking in all the delicious animal fats.
And the best the doctor and dietician could come up with was “cut out grape juice”, not tell me “eat real food and exercise”.
At age 6 being given 2% milk, having been given soymilk to “prevent developing lactose intolerance”, I felt as if I had discovered the nectar of the gods.
I felt this again at 16 switching from 2% to whole milk, and likely will again should I ever drink raw milk.
Raw milk is actually fairly available.
There are directory websites for finding some near you.
However at present I’m not going and paying quadruple or more (I don’t know raw milk’s average cost) for the truest milk, and view homogenized whole milk as good enough at about $2.50 per gallon.
This is including having seen with my own eyes rather disgusting conditions road side at what I took to be a commercial dairy farm as I drove coast to coast.
I figure in this case, under large scale commercial agriculture conditions, that the heating is a good idea.
Raw from healthy naturally raised cows is better, speaking from what I’ve read and intuited, but commercial production in america is pretty good for what it needs to accomplish.
Commercial agriculture provides far beyond ample calories.
You as the consumer get to choose what you eat.
I personally base my diet on dairy, meat, and some grain.
You can’t go wrong with meat and potatoes, even if that’s inexpensive meat which while living was corn and soy fed.
Organic makes the most sense with meat as the fat is where all the bad stuff is held in the product.
I laugh when people buy organic fruit for instance.
With what a healthyish vegetarian eats they don’t really need to purchase organic as organic makes a difference with red meat and milk the most.
As I type I have a bowl of chicken and potatoes, stretched with a box of mac and cheese, while drinking milk.
I’m thankful for commerical agriculture. It feeds me well.
It’d be healthier to eat only organic meats, free range eggs, and raw milk, but that’s not where I’m at this moment financially, so I make do with commercial agriculture knowing I choose robustness and vigorousness as I eat.
I don’t worry about a thing eating how I eat.
Worry is low testosterone. It’s catabolic.
I ain’t worried. This serves me well. Others can choose to worry about how they eat.
As you eat choose robustness and vigorousness.
There’s plenty for you to choose from and partake in.