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For decades it’s been commonly thought that eating meat is bad for your health.
Is this really the case? Recent research has revealed that nutritional deficiencies have driven chronic disease in millions of people including tooth decay and gum disease.
Meat, and specifically red meat, is a source of many key nutrients including fat-soluble vitamins, which cannot be obtained from plant-based foods.
So should you be eating more meat? There are two questions that arise with eating meat.
The first is the question of whether eating meat is healthy.
The second is that agricultural farming and livestock including cows are harmful to the environment.
For a full perspective on meat, my guest is Diana Rodgers, RD, a nutritionist with a focus on “real food” and a sustainability advocate. She is the co-author of Sacred Cow with the documentary Sacred Cow.
After reading her book and watching the documentary I was compelled to have her on the show to explore her life story and perspective.
We dive into the question of whether a healthy, sustainable, and conscientious food system exist without animals. Does that impact your decision on eating meat today?
I love Diana’s work because it probes the moral, environmental, and nutritional questions we face in raising and eating animals. She also takes a sharp focus on the most maligned of farmed animals, the cow.
To learn more about Diana’s work you can go to her website:
Watch the Sacred Cow Movie
