Grass-Fed Nation: Getting Back the Food We Deserve
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (580 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 178578076X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Donovan C. Wilkin said I'D LOVE IT MORE IF ITS ARGUMENTS WERE BACKED UP WITH SCIENCE. I loved it, but primarily because it says things I would like to believe. I have long regretted animals disappearing from farms and reappearing in putrid feed lots and industrial sheds. I would love to go back 60 or 70 years to the bucolic farms I remember as a boy with grazing animals of all sorts, horses, chickens, pigs, cows, sheep, and g
Graham Harvey has written on food and farming for Farmers’ Weekly, the Sunday Times (UK) and the Daily Mail. His first book, The Killing of the Countryside, was winner of the BP Natural World Book Prize. He is also co-founder of the Oxford Real Farming Conference on low-input, ecological agriculture.
About the AuthorGraham Harvey has written on food and farming for Farmers’ Weekly, the Sunday Times (UK) and the Daily Mail. His first book, The Killing of the Countryside, was winner of the BP Natural World Book Prize. He is also co-founder of the Oxford Real Farming Conference on low-input, ecological agriculture.
Far more likely causes are sugar and refined carbohydrates, low-fat spreads and vegetable oils. In their place we eat processed factory foods and we’ve witnessed a growing epidemic of disease, from type-2 diabetes to heart disease and cancer.It’s now clear that the food revolution’ was flawed. Saturated fat is not the cause of heart disease or diabetes. We can make sure that the meat, dairy foods and eggs we buy come from animals grazing on or running in pasture. For years we’ve been told that, thanks to their high saturated fat content, the foods for which evolution has adapted us grass-fed meat, grass-fed