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Local Beef Bottleneck
I love eating meat that lived well and died happy. In my opinion, the most critical thing in my diet is my quality supply of meat. If food animals live on the diet that they prefer, not the diet that … Continue reading
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Tagged bandwagon, industrial meats, local food, local meat, meat processing
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Case Closed on Gluten Sensitivity…perhaps…
Lets go straight to Mother Jones for one of my favorite topics, “gluten sensitivity”… I love picking on gluten sensitivity because despite all the hype and the loads of ‘gluten-free’ foods that have been recently dumped on the shelves everywhere … Continue reading
Gotta Eat It All
If you are contemplating eating only meat for a living, you have to come to terms with the fact that you will be eating from the entire animal, not just the pieces you are used to eating. Primary muscles may … Continue reading
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Tagged All meat diet, breaking habits, carbohydrates, dehydration, low carbohydrate diet, offal, protein, protien, real food, real meat recipes
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Things Are Getting Better All The Time
Nestle and Hershey are going to quit using artificial ingredients in their chocolates. Read about that here. Processed food makers are reporting slowing or negative growth, perhaps because people are eating more and more real food. I hope it’s not … Continue reading
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Tagged all meat, atkins diet, diet, eating cheap, Eating Right, healthy eating, living healthy, low carbohydrate, vitamin deficiency
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Ketosis
Every night, if you eat dinner at around 6 and you sleep until about 6, your body utilizes all of the carbohydrates and glucose that are in your bloodstream and it begins to draw down the stored energy in your … Continue reading
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Tagged atkins diet, carbohydrates, high fat, ketone bodies, ketosis, low carbohydrate, meat eater, smoked oysters
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GRAS
Someone should be paying attention. You sort of just assume that someone is watching what goes into our foods. Artificial ingredients perform lots of different duties in your processed foods, they would be inedible without them, but are they safe? … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial ingredients, FDA, Food Safety, GRAS, low carb, low carbohydrate diet, Melanie Warner, USDA
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Love Your Food, Even Before It’s Food
It is possible to treat your food with love and respect while it is still living. When taking a life for your food, there is a right way and a wrong way to do it. True animal husbands know the … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, animal husbandry, butchery, farmstead meatsmith, harvesting meats, industrial meat, meat, torture
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The Answer is YES, Maybe!
Should Pregnant Women Eat More Tuna? That’s the New York Times’ headline this morning. Should pregnant women be advised to eat more tuna? There are, apparently, trace amounts of mercury in tuna, or there were, or something. Ages ago it … Continue reading
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Tagged dietary guidelines, King Mackerel, mercury, omega 3, statistics, tuna
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Least Expensive Is Best, Right?
I can get this bacon on sale this week for 1.99 per pound. At my local meat processing locker I can get smoked sugar cured bacon for 6.49 per pound. I can get a fresh pork belly from the locker … Continue reading
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Tagged bacon, Contaminated meat, Food Safety, HIMP, local food, meat inspections, saving money, USDA
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