Beef Myths

Saturday essay: Where’s the beef?

admin — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:51:02 +0000

I’m a meat-and-potatoes guy. Always have been. And admittedly, post-50, I probably consume more red meat than I should for my well-being.

But what’s suggested by Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, an Indian economist, is all bun and no burger.

The chairman of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is advising people to set aside a meat-free day once a week. Then they should reduce their consumption further.

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PETA: Saving the Earth by Not Eating Meat

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:26:13 +0000

As the vast global warming hoax begins its inexorable death, an equally vast campaign against the raising of livestock and the consumption of meat continues, led by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and supported by the propaganda machinery of the United Nations through its Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Health Organization (WHO), and its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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Memo To The Vegan Fringe: 100-Person Studies Are A Two-Edged Sword

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:21:25 +0000

Pity Poor Neal Barnard of the deceptive Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). The Psychiatrist-turned-tofu-evangelist seldom stops touring the country, insisting to anyone who will listen that a meat-free, egg-free, dairy-free diet is the cure for whatever ails you. We’d call it a snake-oil act, but that wouldn’t be vegan. This week Barnard is in Syracuse, New York promoting an anti-meat book that he claims can “reverse” diabetes—at a speech sponsored by Natur-Tyme, a “health and wellness” store whose other guest consultant this month is a “holistic veterinarian.” We’re not joking.

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Article: How to Avoid Losing Muscle as You Age

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:41:22 +0000

Thanks in part to a lot of drug commercials starring Sally Field, we’ve all heard plenty about osteoporosis (dangerously low bone mass), and its less severe sibling, osteopenia. Not as familiar is sarcopenia, the age-related decline in muscle mass and function. It’s not as well studied, and its exact causes are still unknown, though it clearly contributes to frailty and a loss of independence in people’s later years. The good news is there are things you can do to prevent its ill effects, and also to improve your condition if you’re already feeling its consequences.

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Why Should Vegetarians Define ‘Sustainable’?

admin — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:19:02 +0000

Rajendra Pachauri, the chief UN expert on climate change, has declared that everyone should eat less meat to help combat climate change. Reactions so far have been mixed, ranging from a call for revolt via “a series of vast Homeric barbeques” (to be dubbed “Pachauri days”) to “What ever happened to fish stick Fridays?” But for the most part, the general response has been one of concern and honest skepticism. The sort of earnest doubt that, apparently, the anti-meat camp would rather do without.

Earlier today, the Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Food Issues hosted a well-timed panel discussion on beef production and greenhouse gas emissions. Panelists included Alex Avery, the Institute’s Director of Research; Dr. Judith Capper, author of a groundbreaking study on the environmental benefits of synthetic bovine growth hormone (more on that here); and Danielle Nierenberg of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).

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Cattle go green on grain

admin — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:25:07 +0000

FeedIndustryNetwork.com posted an article that explains why conventionally raised beef is better for the environment than grass-fed beef.

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PETA Shower Protest Is All Wet (Again)

admin — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:48:50 +0000

“Fast food” zoning, mandated calorie guilt trips, Crisco bans — we think it’s safe to say that Californians have had enough meddling in their food choices lately. But PETA would like to make absolutely sure. Which is why Sunshine State residents in Fresno and San Francisco are getting a lecture on meat-eating this week, in the form of a naked shower. Here we go again.

We saw this same PETA shower stunt in New York’s Times Square three months ago. Back then, the “showering” protesters claimed that producing a pound of meat “requires water equivalent to more than a year’s worth of showers.” And now?

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The Center for Consumer Freedom posted a commentary that criticizes the Physician’s Committee

admin — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:37:24 +0000

The Center for Consumer Freedom posted a commentary that criticizes the Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine for their latest The Cancer Project “stunt” featuring a commercial against processed meats in schools.

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American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) has criticized the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

admin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:04:41 +0000

In a post to its Health Facts and Fears blog, the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) has criticized the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine’s (PCRM) attack on processed meats in school meals. After noting that PCRM is a “misleadingly” named group of “animal rights activists”, the post concludes:

While no responsible nutrition professional would advocate feeding children processed meats in large amounts every day, moderate amounts won’t harm them — and who can go to a ballgame and resist the hot dogs that make the day complete? Lighten up, PCRM. The reports you cited are certainly not the final word on cancer causation, and it is not necessary to go vegan in order to be healthy.

http://www.acsh.org/factsfears/newsID.1177/news_detail.asp

Center for Consumer Freedom issues press release criticizing the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

admin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:02:10 +0000

The Center for Consumer Freedom has issued a press release criticizing the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) and the anti-meat ad it is sponsoring through “The Cancer Project.” The release noted that “less than four percent” of PCRM members “are actual physicians” and concluded, “It is clear that this phony physicians committee should leave the dietary advice to some real doctors.”

http://sev.prnewswire.com/food-beverages/20080724/DC2853324072008-1.html