This article isn’t vegan propaganda in the least, just restating facts and studies that the typical American sheep isn’t aware of. I guess if I ate meat, I might take this as a personal attack and get easily butt-hurt and defensive without actually considering what the article says.

I highly doubt a perfidious cartoonist has any business providing commentary insofar as diet is concerned. Highly-trained medical professionals who study nutrition their entire careers have a very narrow consensus on what is and isn’t healthy. Take a look at the junk argibusiness pumps into cattle in this country and you’ll realize the absurdity of attempting to blame red meat for anything in and of itself.

Countering mass indoctrination of the public by argibusiness with PETA propaganda is a false dichotomy if ever there was one. A Western Diet IS the problem but uniformed dietary habits based on ethic grounds ARE NOT the solution.

Seconldy it could well be that it’s the ‘Western Way of Life’ with it’s selfishness, emphasis on individual satisfaction, high stress, high ambition and emphasis on at all costs avoiding being a ‘loser’ that is causing the cancer not the ‘American Diet’.

After all, who in China, Japan, India etc, eats the Americvan Diet and patronize McDonalds?. It’s those natives who have given up their traditional low cost simple lives and have gotten on the higher paying consumeris American Way of Life.

What’s needed is to separate the two e.g. find a remote tribe, away from cities and pay subjects to eat more meat and eggs, keeping total caloric input the same and have no other change in their way of life so that they continue being simple family and group oriented people.

I bet that they stay healthy!

‘The Oiling of America
by Mary Enig, PhD, and Sally Fallon

In 1954 a young researcher from Russia named David Kritchevsky published a paper describing the effects of feeding cholesterol to rabbits.1 Cholesterol added to vegetarian rabbit chow caused the formation of atheromas—plaques that block arteries and contribute to heart disease. Cholesterol is a heavy weight molecule—an alcohol or a sterol—found only in animal foods such as meat, fish, cheese, eggs and butter. In the same year, according to the American Oil Chemists Society, Kritchevsky published a paper describing the beneficial effects of polyunsaturated fatty acids for lowering cholesterol levels.2 Polyunsaturated fatty acids are the kind of fats found in large amounts in highly liquid vegetable oils made from corn, soybeans, safflower seeds and sunflower seeds. (Monounsaturated fatty acids are found in large amounts in olive oil, palm oil and lard; saturated fatty acids are found in large amounts in fats and oils that are solid at room temperature, such as butter, tallows and coconut oil.)

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http://www.westonaprice.org/knowyourfats/oiling.html