Hundreds Of Undercover Feds Were In The Crowd On Jan 6th!
They lie to you.
“Free Range” Chicken Label Is Complete Bullsh*t – Reveals Undercover Video
They lie routinely, and it’s not just ‘free range’ that means nothing. The same is true of ‘pasture-raised’ (in spite of what Dore says–I looked it up), and grass-fed … and even though you can buy perfectly certified Organic Non-GMO rice, it still could be legally loaded to the germ with poisonous arsenic, if it was grown in dirt that used to grow cotton, as is often the case in places like Texas and Arkansas.
I still cautiously and tentatively trust well-soaked certified organic rice from California, for example.
But I’ll be honest and say I’m having some issues, even there.
I blame the keto freaks on the YouTubes.
They’ve got me half-convinced, against my will.
I’m not going all the way down the rabbit hole here today, but the basic argument in its logical-conclusion form is that while human bodies need carbohydrates, it’s quite possible that eating them is unnecessary and possibly harmful.
This late-stage version of the widespread argument claims that even without taking in any carbs (including all grains, cereals, and beans) through diet, the body is fully capable of synthesizing the carbohydrate energy it needs from high-fat things like good meat, and nutrients from things like good vegetables.
And that therefore, layering my beloved pinto beans on to my beloved corn tortillas is a bad idea, spiking insulin and blood sugar unnecessarily, and letting the body run hot on carb fuel, instead of burning fat like it arguably Should.
Even that much is reasonably convincing to me. But that’s not the end of the harsh news, from my religious perspective.
If you were a hunter-gatherer before civilization and the Fall, you wouldn’t have been eating much in the way of beans or grains. Corn for example did not exist. It’s precursor plant, teosinte, produced cobs about half the size of your pinky finger, so gathering enough of it to be a dietary staple was just not going to happen.
Throughout human pre-history, in most places, you’d be eating mostly a plant-based diet of roots and stalks, flowerings and vegetable matter, supplemented seasonally by things like berries, and of course whatever meat you had the skill and luck to obtain through the hunting part.
You’d be burning whatever fat you could get, rather than running on the glucose of carbs constantly like we do in our hypercivilized modern way.
Excess fat on the body was pretty rare. but when it existed it did so as a survival mechanism, a stored reserve against lean times.
A morbidly obese modern human can be storing up to a million calories in their body for lean times that never come.
I probably have a hundred thousand at least in the tank myself.
Carbs are relatively cheap energy. Even with buying organic, beans and corn flour and rice in bulk will run you somewhere between two and five bucks a pound.
This morning, with all these factors on my mind I took a healthy walk to the grocery (a walk while still fasting, as the theoretical experts agree is best), and studied the meat section.
It’s the only grocery in town. They have a whole wall of meat of course. Only a tiny fraction of it even tries to pose as healthier than average, and for most meats there is literally nothing labeled organic.
I bought a pound of “100% grass fed US Angus ground beef” with a certified-humane label. Eight dollars.
I also bought ‘wild-caught’ salmon, 1.25 pounds for 13 dollars (10.40 a pound).
The cheapest thing I could find was organic ground turkey at about $5/lb. and the most expensive was ‘grass-fed’ (percentage of grass to grain unknown) lamb, at somewhere around $14. I didn’t find any specially-labeled pork or chicken.
As a very general rule, therefore, calories from quality fat costs two or three times as much as calories from quality carbs.
As an aside, that would correlate obesity with poverty, and 50% of all Americans now qualify as obese.
But even setting cost aside, I’m not entirely sure what to do now.
I do know that vegetables are going to be a much bigger deal in my life, and that gluten needs to go down to zero.
I do know that a walk like the one I did today will become a more regular thing.
Beyond that …
I will probably (and grudgingly) need to find a way to make beans and corn, and rice, less of a staple in my diet.
I will probably end up eating more meat than I have in a long time.
But a satisfyingly comprehensive big-picture solution is, for now, eluding me.
I’m going to work on de-cluttering today, and let the factors and possibilities ferment in the back of my mind.