Not exact matches
Unfortunately,
most meats available come from
factory farms, where animals are fed the wrong foods and given hormones and antibiotics.
The problem then becomes one of
most people increasing
factory farmed or CAFO
meat which is generally all they have access to.
The truth is that the human digestive system has developed over almost 100,000 years to process a «hunter gatherer» type of diet
most efficiently — this means fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, eggs, and
meat (from healthy animals, a far cry from today's
factory farmed animals).
That's why I try to not support the
factory farm industry as much as possible (which is
most meats and dairy in your supermarket) and instead, I try to eat almost solely grass - fed
meats from free ranging animals, wild game, wild fish, eggs from local farmers from free roaming hens, and dairy only from grass - fed cows that are allowed to graze almost entirely on forage.
Aside from the obvious problem of defining what our ancestors evolved to eat in light of the diversity of their diets,
most paleo - diet fans miss the obvious fact that humans definitely did not evolve to eat the
meats of today (even if grass - fed and free - range, although that IS healthier than
factory -
farmed) or the fish swimming in our polluted seas.
Of the reasons you may commonly hear for eating vegetarian, or at least minimizing your
meat consumption, you may be
most familiar with those tinged with guilt, frustration or sadness: lower your carbon footprint because the planet is melting, or eating
meat supports the intense abuses against animals raised in
factory farms.