But what about the meat? Unlike plants that we can not take out from our nourishment, we are not allowed to eat meat– with the exception of the vitamin B 12- all the meat nourishes can be achieved from other sources. (The little amount of B 12 that is necessary for our body is not hard to achieve, it is in all the products of animal origin and it’s produced by bacteria. Therefore you can get the B 12 vitamin consuming dirty food, altered or fermented products).

But meat, whose procurement people have made enormous efforts and from which people feed many years, is a nutritious nourishment which contains all the essential amino acids and many vitamins and minerals, and I haven’t found any convincing reason to exclude it from my nutrition. (I do not mean by this that we don’t have good ethical or ecological reasons)

Probably it is not such a good idea to eat large amounts of meat, as we do it now (each American consumes an average of 90 kg of meat per year) especially if that meat comes from an extreme industrialized food chain. According to studies, the more consumed meat- especially red meat- the bigger is the risk of heart disease or cancer. But studies on “flexitarieni” show that, in small quantities- less then a portion per day- meat increases the risk of illness. Probably Thomas Jefferson was right when he recommended meat only for flavor like a” spice for vegetables” than as a main meal. I didn’t know which of the component elements of the meat are supposed to concern us (saturated fat? The type of iron? Carcinogenic substances produced by cooking and conserving?)

It is possible that the problem consist in the fact that by eating a big amount of meat, we cut out the vegetables from our plate.

But excessive consumption of industrial meat exposes us to bigger quantities of saturated fat, fat acids omega-6, human growth hormones and carcinogenic substances than recommended.

Meat illustrates the idea that the health of food product can not be separated from the health of the food chain. This means that the health of the soil, of the plants, of the animals and of the consumers depend on each other.