A few years ago I realised I needed to lose weight and opted to take the route of a low carb diet after seeing a BBC documentary The Truth About Carbs. I lost 13kg over a few months, avoiding starchy carbs, grains, processed foods and takeaways, and my health also improved significantly. This led to making a permanent change in my food shopping habits. One of the changes in diet was to buy yoghurt to eat with various fresh berries for desserts. (After trying many brands I settled on Yeo Valley yoghurt purely for its quality on the palate, knowing nothing about its organic credentials).
The next significant milestone on my journey was the blatantly wrong hype around the veganuary campaign being better for health and the planet. What struck me most about this EAT-Lancet campaign was the deliberate targeting of red meat from grazing ruminants, and the subsequent ludicrous claims from universities about reducing their carbon footprint by banning it in their menus, something I instinctively knew to be the opposite of the truth. I followed the money, researched the science, and found a rabbit warren of vested global corporate interests and ideology behind a misinformation campaign. That continues today, with the World Economic Forum making very sinister totalitarian plans to control global food production and tell YOU what you can and can’t eat.
Researching the facts about agriculture and greenhouse gases led me to the soil science behind the revolution of regenerative agriculture. It not only confirmed my suspicions about the deliberate targeting of grazing ruminants but led to the realisation that they were an essential part of the best solutions we may have to global warming, soil degradation, desertification, flooding and to the global provision of food and good health.
Why did I mention Yeo Valley above? Well, I’ve just heard a podcast interview of their CEO and founder Tim Mead expounding his views on soil carbon, regenerative agriculture and the future of organic dairy farming in the UK, all of which I was previously unaware of. His views are entirely in accord with my own. It seems there are many routes for deciding by intellect what constitutes a healthy diet and what we should eat, but one way is to develop and trust your palate to tell you what is good for your own health and the planet. Let’s not lose that basic human right to decide for ourselves what we eat.
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