The Meat Controversy

Meat or no meat? That'sa question that's wracking America today. Should Americans follow secretary of Health RFK Jr 'd diet f filets and fermentation? Or should they embrace vegetarianism? What's the best way of life?

New contributor and regular New York Times reporter Lisa Miller wrote this fascinating piece in yesterdays New York Times Wednesday Food section.Carnivore versus herbivore isn't something new. Meat was always touted as the cure all for whatever ailed a person.During the Civil War physicians prescribed minced beef for strength. For those who couldn't;t afford meat which was expensive at the time there were elixirs  derived for meat they also didn't spoil which was common for beef and chicken before the days of refrigeration,Meat juice was promoted as atomic for sustaining and strengthening " the vital forces". One tonic , Valentines Meat Juice  promised that they cured and prevented pneumonia and flu. Not surprisingly vegetarianism was also on the rise at this time. Brothers William and John Harvey Kellogg promoted a meat free diet that released people from diseases, clogged arteries and even animal propensities in young eople. They and John Harvey 's wife Ella came up with that classic staple, Corn flakes. These were a better alternative to meat heavy breakfasts loaded with sausages and bacon.They even came up with what could be called a prototype for IMpossible meat.

The controversy is still alive and well today. RFK Jr is flouting his meat and fermented food diet where he eats steak, sauerkraut and yogurt.  Vice President JD Vance is on this diet. It seems greens are on the taboo list which can be a bad idea.According to MAHA  -Make America Healthy Again followers meat living is presented as a revolutionary rebuttal of established nutrition based science of plant forward eating, The much beloved Mediterranean diet is now suspect. Kennedy himself has dismissed the established nutrition science as dogma,claiming eating a fully meat based diet has made him lose twenty pounds. Even pro meat enthusiasts treat plants as if  they're poisonous. Influencer Anthony Chaffee, who  received a medical degree  in obstetrics and surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin claims that eating a slad has the same long term health risks as smoking cigarettes. There is a problem with all this  so called "scientific Facts" (if they can be called that), An all meat diet can;t cure all diseases.It can;t add decades onto a person;s life. Home chefs should take these claims with a huge grain of salt. They're scientistic based on some fact and not scientific  based on one hundred per cent facts.

What is the right diet? One that should be a balance of good low carb no sugar and salt foods.This is the healthiest way of eating possible. Its' not all meat .It 's a little bit of it.