I too enjoy your posts, and agree that what we eat plays a huge part in our health. I would like to gently take issue with blanket statements about eating meat. “lots of food has to be grown to feed farm animals” isn’t necessarily true. If you are eating primarily pasture-raised meat, most of that land is better off feeding animals than under cultivation to feed us. We can’t eat grass, but cattle, sheep and goats can convert sunlight into protein and energy by eating it.

I also wonder (and admit I haven’t done the research to find out), if the cultures that live long on mostly vegetarian diets are also those cultures that are under less stress and eat less processed foods. I think those are probably as big or bigger factors than the meat/vegetable ratio.

You touch an a much bigger issue of feeding the world (and the alarming number of under-nutritioned here in the US). We’re working on addressing that at our blog over the next few months.

FYI, some of my co-workers here at the National Women’s Law Center have also been doing a series of posts for NWHW. Just wanted to pass that on in case you were interested.

Thanks again for giving us such great reading material!