I am curious as to what would cause someone with the power of the pen to take up a cause to wipe out an industry. Was she the jilted lover of an egg farmer now seeking revenge? Did he fall for an emotional statement after his friend’s grandfather died of a heart attack after years of eating 5 eggs a day? (The same chain-smoking, couch-lounging, cake-loving, exercise-avoiding grandfather that is.) Just how does it happen that misinformation spreads, grows into huge falsehoods, and results in economic losses of magnificent levels to an industry, which adversely affects thousands of families, past and future generations?
For the egg industry, finally they are regaining their health and getting past the bad wrap of a 50-year-old campaign of poor interpretation of scientific results. Eggs (whole foods), are now a fashionably popular source of protein and even touted as a “superfood.”
Now it’s the beef industry that is under fire. And I particularly love this part, not only is the one-ingredient whole food bad for you, but the cows flatulence is ruining our world. This is especially ironic because cows have been around for a kazillion years and have been proven to ruin our atmosphere on several occasions by farting throughout history. (AOC, that was a sarcastic comment and not a scientific fact). I become quite indignant when some high and mighty pen bearer in their cubicle stories above the city streets, which cannot be seen through the smog, goes to harping about how cows are making things out here on the blue-skied, can‑see‑for‑miles grasslands, polluted. You need to get out more often cubicle dweller, and I don’t mean to the nearest pub.
The same marketing geniuses who note that Pork Rinds are “carbohydrate free” and honey is gluten-free, have now proclaimed that the meatless burger, a complex chemical concoction, is “healthier” than the one-ingredient, whole food, beef.
Interestingly, ironically, those doing the smear campaigns these days are vegan groups. The same people who want to know where their food comes from, encourage eating whole foods, and yet are thrilled with “meatless” burgers, a brew of who-knows-what chemicals are combined with fetal bovine serum. Wait, what? You read that right, blood (serum) of an unborn (fetal) cow (bovine).
Numerous articles have been written about the fact that these meatless burgers are highly processed foods and truly offer no health benefits over the hamburgers that contain one ingredient (whole food by the way). I could cite those articles here but I believe it is good for someone to actually look them up and read them for themselves instead of blindly trusting everything that is written.
In short, eating healthy really can be summed up in one phrase, “Everything in moderation.” I would go on to suggest that we take a long pause when presented with some of these clever marketing crusades. Every week we are exposed to endless “facts,” true and horrifically made up. When a celebrity suddenly discovers that by eating fried grasshopper legs, they now have boundless energy, reversed the aging process, and their sex life is now amazing, I invite you to take pause before running to the store for the freshest batch of locust limbs.
Now go ahead and enjoy that steak tonight folks. That protein-packed, iron-rich, one-ingredient, steak.
