[ExI] Pink Slime

[Stefano Vaj]

2012/3/13 Kryonica <kryonica at gmail.com>

> But this morning on BBC news we were once more reminded of the dangers of
> eating red and processed meat...
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17345967
>

Yes, the key words in my previous messages being "all other things being
equal"·

*If* you have carbos in your diet, the less red meat (or, for that matter,
the less of absolutely anything) you eat, the better. For instance, carbos
disrupt self-regulation in fat assumptions, and stimulate your body to
produce excess colestherol, so that adding further quantities by dietary
intake may not really be a good idea.

Moreover, the assumption that "pink slime" is nutritionally perfect is
subject to a likely disproval.

Ideally, we should eat meat of healthy animals of an ideal age having died
a relatively painless death after a healthy life in the wild, unaffected by
the passage of time or inappropriate preservation.

This is pretty close to what some hunter-gatherer culture manage(d) to
obtain from their environment (eskimos having eg a much lower incidence of
cardiovascular diseases...) , and to what we still can obtain in the
affluent world with a deliberate and expensive nutritional-savvy effort,
but I suspect that it is not really be reflected in the ingredients and
status of your average pink slime - or of a mass-market morning sausage,
for that matter.

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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