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Sacred Cow

The Case for (Better) Meat

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Sacred Cow

By: Diana Rodgers RD, Robb Wolf
Narrated by: Christine Williams
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We’re told that if we care about our health - or our planet - eliminating red meat from our diets is crucial. That beef is bad for us and cattle farming is horrible for the environment. But science says otherwise.

Beef is framed as the most environmentally destructive and least healthy of meats. We’re often told that the only solution is to reduce or quit red meat entirely. But despite what anti-meat groups, vegan celebrities, and some health experts say, plant-based agriculture is far from a perfect solution. In Sacred Cow, registered dietitian Diana Rodgers and former research biochemist and New York Times best-selling author Robb Wolf explore the quandaries we face in raising and eating animals - focusing on the largest (and most maligned) of farmed animals, the cow.

Taking a critical look at the assumptions and misinformation about meat, Sacred Cow points out the flaws in our current food system and in the proposed “solutions”. Inside, Rodgers and Wolf reveal contrarian but science-based findings, such as:

  • Meat and animal fat are essential for our bodies
  • A sustainable food system cannot exist without animals
  • A vegan diet may destroy more life than sustainable cattle farming
  • Regenerative cattle ranching is one of our best tools at mitigating climate change

You’ll also find practical guidance on how to support sustainable farms and a 30-day challenge to help you transition to a healthful and conscientious diet. With scientific rigor, deep compassion, and wit, Rodgers and Wolf argue unequivocally that meat (done right) should have a place on the table.

It’s not the cow, it’s the how!

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2020 Diana Rodgers, RD and Robb Wolf (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing
Diets, Nutrition & Healthy Eating Environment Fitness, Diet & Nutrition Hygiene & Healthy Living Science Nutrition Vegan Plant-Based Diet Solar System

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Don’t expect to read this from cover to cover. Read a bit at a time and absorb the content properly. This is an important work. I hope that we as a species can take heed and act now. All of us can act as individuals, and support the regenerative system this book so well explains. Let’s get cracking.

An important and pertinent read

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Soo many great facts, I can't think of any reason not to eat meat now.

A must read for vegans

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A great listen, very factual not at all dogmatic. Highlights the problems with monocrop agriculture damaging our topsoil and its sustainability issue. Shows the benefits of regenerative grazing ruminants to biodiversity and why this IS something we can sustain. Diana and Robb also do a great job explaining the health benefits of nutrient dense meat whether grassfed of not.

Top book!

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Really enjoyed this book learned a lot from it and will take it with me on my journey

Good book

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a very holistic view, very bad that the industrial powers to stop these good changes are predictable to win.

excellent

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