A cow builds fats that exist in no other food. Not chicken, not pork, not one plant.
It happens in the rumen, a vat of bacteria fermenting grass. They make a family of fats nothing else on your plate carries.
CLA is the famous one. In beef, lamb, and butter. In no chicken, and no vegetable.
Vaccenic acid rides with it. A ruminant fat your own body turns into more CLA.
Trans-palmitoleic acid is next. Ruminant-only, and study after study ties it to lower diabetes risk.
Yes, a trans fat. The kind a cow makes is a different beast from the industrial stuff pressed out of seed oil.
Then the branched-chain fats. Built into the rumen bacteria themselves, then passed up into the meat and the milk.
And C15:0, an odd-chain fat so ruminant that scientists now argue it might be essential.
Every one is born in the gut of a grazing animal. Nowhere else on earth.
Chicken can't give them to you. Neither can pork, or the cleanest salad ever tossed.
The cow, the sheep, the goat. They are the only door to a whole class of fats your body runs on.
Lose the ruminant, and you lose them for good.
People get so mad about carnivore and I still don't understand why?
I'm eating ancestral food. Meat, organs, eggs, butter. It's not a cult.
It's dinner.
If a woman choosing not to eat carbs upsets you, maybe that says more about you than me.
You don't have to eat like I do.
But I'm not pretending it doesn't work just to make strangers comfortable.
"You need a varied diet" sounds obvious. It quietly assumes that no single food is complete.
The advice exists because plant foods each fall short somewhere, so you must mix many to cover the gaps.
Eat enough different deficient things and you might, between them, scrape together everything.
Animal foods break the rule. Meat, eggs, and dairy are each close to complete on their own.
A diet of beef, eggs, and butter covers nearly every nutrient a human needs, off a tiny list.
That looks restrictive next to a rainbow of vegetables. It is in fact more complete.
Variety for its own sake is a workaround for foods that cannot stand alone.
Carnivores eat a short menu and show no deficiencies. That should be impossible, if the rule were true.
A short list of complete foods beats a long list of incomplete ones. Variety was always the consolation prize for eating plants.
The only chicken breast recipe you'll ever need. Save this.
1. Source one corn-fed, free-range breast.
2. Brine overnight in filtered water with a bruised bay leaf.
3. Vacuum-seal with thyme and a knob of cultured butter.
4. Sous vide at 62C for ninety minutes.
5. Pat it bone dry. Moisture is the enemy of the sear, and the sear is everything.
6. Sear in foaming butter, ninety seconds a side, basting like your life depends on it.
7. Rest under foil. Plate with a smear of pea puree and three drops of jus.
8. Bin it.
9. Eat a steak.
Four hours, forty quid of kit and the entire spice rack, all to make a bird taste faintly of the butter. Or you could have the thing that was already delicious before you got anywhere near it.
It wasn’t.
With rare exception, colonies were unprofitable, meaning more was spent building infrastructure like roads, railways, buildings, etc. than was exported.
And look at places like Singapore and Hong Kong. Both were colonies for a long time and yet they are extremely prosperous.
Placenta of a Vegan woman vs. that of an animal based woman.
Do I even have to say anything?
It's obvious that the Vegan child will be less intelligent, smaller and underdeveloped due to the malnourishment.
It's actually very sad.