BEEF, ITS WHAT’S FOR DINNER

This article was written by Amanda Radke, a rancher. I have harped about this Grand Experiment with the American diet for years—basically, the low-fat diet is the cause of the American obesity pandemic.

http://www.beefmagazine.com/outlook/cardiac-surgeon-says-beef-can-help-prevent-heart-disease?NL=BEEF-02&Issue=BEEF-02_20180419_BEEF-02_859&sfvc4enews=42&cl=article_2_b&utm_rid=CPG02000003521558&utm_campaign=26751&utm_medium=email&elq2=19829e43812f42539a52f544573ad02e

Promoting the elimination of meat, eggs, butter, whole milk and substituting with processed, sugary foods makes sense and pleases our palates. A sweet roll just tastes better than a hard-boiled egg. Processed food producers jumped on that band wagon. Hell ya! And if a food contains cholesterol, doesn’t that mean it is, therefore, deposited in our arteries? Well, it’s a bit more complicated than that.

Even the prime mover in this awful experiment from the 1950’s, the longitudinal Framingham Study, seems to have discovered results that a recent director of the study described as “disappointing.” In that they indicated that the people who followed the guidelines of avoiding fat, etc., had more heart disease and died earlier than those who didn’t. Well, that is one thing, but how can the results of a scientific study be “disappointing” because they don’t support the findings that management wanted? Not very scientific, is it?

Anyway, the article says it better than I can. Just know that for those of us who grew up in the 1950’s and later, our avoidance of fat, red meat, cream, whole milk (we used to give the skim milk to the hogs because it made them fat) in favor of processed foods has been beaten into us. Not good.

And another thing. Beef producers “donate” $1 per marketed head of cattle to the USDA for purposes of promoting beef, the “Check-off” program. Yeah, give the bureaucracy that gives us food stamps the responsibility for “Marketing.” How’s that working? The author, Radke, is a proponent of at least one activity of the Check-off which is to provide doctors with accurate information, so she isn’t as skeptical (cynical?) as some of the rest of us.

Some state operations are trying to get the Check-off stopped so they can do some actual research and marketing. Still, don’t ya love Sam Elliot?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoyE1B7HHA