We encourage the use of grass-fed and pasture-raised beef, lamb, poultry, wild game, as well as fish and shellfish. And more importantly we encourage the use of the whole animal, not just the lean meat. Traditional people consumed the organs, skin, bones and fat. Our chapter teaches recipes such as “Chicken Liver Divine”, “Easy Soup Stock”, and “Holiday Sausage” to help members take advantage of the wonderful nourishing powers of these foods. Using the whole animal is not only more cost effective and respectful to the animal, but modern science shows us that the organs, skin, bones and fat contain many important nutrients that are not readily available elsewhere.
Characteristics of Traditional Diets:
Principle #2:
All traditional cultures consume some sort of animal food, such as fish and shellfish; land and water fowl; land and sea mammals; eggs; milk and milk products; reptiles; and insects. The whole animal is consumed–muscle meat, organs, bones and fat, with the organ meats and fats preferred.
Read more >> Principles of Healthy Diets
Animal Foods:
All cultures, from all over the world, eat animal foods, usually on a daily basis. Animal products include:
RED MEAT like beef, lamb, pork, buffalo and game
ORGAN MEATS like liver, bone marrow and kidney
POULTRY like chicken, turkey, duck and goose, including the skin
FISH like salmon, trout, halibut, tilapia and sole
SHELLFISH like crab, lobster, shrimp, oysters and mussels
EGGS fixed scrambled, fried, boiled, poached, in omelets, and added to other foods
WHOLE MILK and dairy products like cheese and yogurt
Nutrients in Animal Foods:
Animal foods supply important nutrients that we cannot get from other foods. These nutrients include:
COMPLETE PROTEIN for building the body
VITAMIN B12 for healthy blood and brain
VITAMIN A for healthy eyes, skin and brain
VITAMIN D for protection against depression and disease
VITAMIN K2 for healthy blood, bones and brain
CHOLESTEROL for building the brain and intestinal tract in growing children
SPECIAL TYPES OF FATS for normal growth, learning and memory, and protection against diseaseAnimal foods are also better sources of many nutrients than plant foods. These nutrients include:
CALCIUM for healthy bones
COPPER for healthy blood
MAGNESIUM for healthy cells
IRON for healthy blood and good energy
ZINC for healthy brains and protection against infection
VITAMIN B6 for freedom from diseaseThese are important nutrients for building a healthy body and keeping it strong!
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Recommendations:
FRESH MEAT
BEST
Fresh or frozen beef, veal, lamb, poultry, goat and pork, including fat and organ meats, from (preferably soy-free and GMO-free) animals allowed to graze; venison and other game meat. (For a list of farmers providing grass-fed animal products, see www.eatwild.com or localharvest.org, or contact a chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation, westonaprice.org or 202-363-4394.) Note: It is important to consume organ meats and meat with the fat. Consumption of lean meats can lead to deficiencies.
GOOD
Organic or naturally raised poultry, pork, veal and rabbit; beef, bison, lamb and goat.
AVOID
Most commercial chicken, turkey and pork, which is raised in confinement on industrial farms.
See also: PROCESSED MEAT, PEMMICAN & JERKY, and SEAFOOD in our >>> Shopping Guide Categories
Local Sources of Pasture-Raised Meats:
Here in Eugene we can find a wide variety of locally and humanely-raised animal foods.
We recommend everyone pick up a copy of the Locally Grown Directory, produced here in Eugene by the Willamette Farm and Food Coalition. You can also view our Farm List page for local resources (these pages are still a work in progress). To buy beef and lamb meat, organs and bones in local stores see: Local Butchers & Markets
More info on the Eugene Chapter, WAPF website:
Newsletter Category Tags:
Articles on the Weston A. Price Foundation website:
See all Meat and Organ Meats articles on the Weston A. Price website:
Beef & Cows:
- It’s the Beef: Myths & Truths About Beef
- Splendor From the Grass
- Red Meat: Bane or Boon?
- Achieving Culinary Success With Grass-Fed Beef
- An Inconvenient Cow
- Cutting the Cold, Hard Fat
- Cows Save the Planet by Judith D. Schwartz
- The Ethics of Eating Meat: A Radical View
- Beef Shanks
- Biltong
- Hearty Beef Soup
- Korean Beef
- A search for “grass-fed” on the WAPF website yields even more articles.
Lamb:
Pork:
- Properly Prepared Pork Recipes
- How Does Pork Prepared in Various Ways Affect the Blood
- How Does Pork Sausage Affect the Blood?
- Save Your Bacon
Poultry:
- The Whole Bird
- An Old-Fashioned Farm
- Chickens Are Omnivores: It’s No Dilemma
- One Bird, Ten Thousand Treasures
- Pastured Poultry: The Polyface Farm Model
- Uncooking That Goose: Kosher Salami and “Ham” from Italy
Fish & Seafood:
- Maine Shrimp, Pandalus Borealis
- Oysters
- The Roe to Health
- Troubled Waters: Mercury Build-Up in the Seas
- Is Something Fishy Going On?
Meat, Organs, Bones and Skin:
- Meat, Organs, Bones and Skin
- Cooking with Blood: Boudin Noir and Czarnina
- Soup-stenance
- Soups, Stews and One-Pot Meals of Slovenia
- Grass-fed Meat, Eggs and Dairy video
- Stocks and Soups Video by Sarah Pope
- Broth is Beautiful
- Why Broth is Beautiful: Essential Roles for Proline, Glycine and Gelatin
- Bone Marrow
- Gourmet Organ Meat Recipes
- Put Lard Back in Your Larder
- Rocky Mountain Oysters: Expanding on the List of Organ Meats
- Stocks
- The Liver Files
- The Offal Cookoff
Insects:
Wild Game:
Rabbits:
Vegetarianism:
Wise Traditions Conference Recordings:
Beef:
- 15955 Traditional Food Preparation: Tender Grass Fed Beef – Shannon Hayes
- 15969 Keynote Address: The Politics of Beef – Joel Salatin, BA
Broth:
- 10958 The Healing Power of Broth – Kaayla Daniel, PhD
- 17543 – Broth-Based Soups and Stews – Jessica Prentice
- 22049 – Don’t Toss the Bones – Bone Broth is Beautiful
- 22057 – The Healing Power of Broth:The History and Science
- 24467 – Bone Broth: A Look at the Science
- 31386 – Making Meat Stock and Bone Broth with Ease
Vegetarianism & nutrients in animal foods:
- 17551 – The China Study Myths – Denise Minger
- 17561 – Recovery from Vegetarianism – Kaayla Daniel, PhD
- 20201 – Meat, Organs, Bones, and Skin: Nutrition for Mental Health – Chris Masterjohn, PhD
- 24468 – Vegetarian Myths
- 31372 – Vegetarianism Explained
- 29668 – Fat Rendering
Farming, Ranching & Soil (importance to health):
- 17556 – The Integrated Farm – Alan Yegerlehner
- 17581 – Whole System Poultry – Harvey Ussery
- 20190 – Turning Sunlight into Animal Products – Peter J. Ballerstedt, PhD
- 20191 – The Farmstead Meatsmiths – Lauren and Brandon Sheard
- 22087 – Long Way on a Little
- 24458 – Teaming with Microbes: All you need to know about the Soil Food Web
- 24472 – Six Inches of Soil
- 26164 – Holistic Management: Promoting the Restoration of Grasslands to Save Civilization
- 26182 – How To Put NUTRIENT DENSITY Back Into Meat, Milk and Eggs??We Have Gone from Aurochs to Shmoos
- 26188 – Keynote: Hope for Humanity in Holistic Management
- 28096 – How to Make Your Farm Less Efficient
- 28119 – Red Meat and the Masculine Ideal Through History
- 28134 – Closing Ceremony: Restoring the Family Farm
- 29656 – #itsallaboutthegrass: The Story of Northstar Bison
- 29657 – Minerals, Vitamins, Salt and High Brix Forages-Rearing Livestock the Natural Way
- 31391 – Grazing for Nature: Creating Real Ecological Wealth Using Animals
Check out the Conference Collections
Elsewhere on the web:
- USDA Meat and Poultry Labeling Terms
- Bone Stock Recipe – by the Natural Fertility Expert
- A Delicious Superfood That Can Help You Get Pregnant – by the Natural Fertility Expert
- Butter, Meat and The Science and Politics of Nutrition – Dr. Mark Hyman interviews Nina Teicholz
- Offally Good Cooking
- Challenging Nutritional Beliefs – Zoë Harcombe, PhD at Wise Traditions Ireland 2017
- Joe Rogan Experience #1058 – Nina Teicholz (language alert)
- Vegetarianism Explained – Dr Natasha Campbell McBride at Wise Traditions Ireland 2017
- The China Study: Fact or Fallacy? – by Denise Minger
- The Truth About the China Study – by Chris Masterjohn, PhD
- RHR: Dispelling the Acid Alkaline Myths – by Chris Kresser
- B12 Deficiency ebook – by Chris Kresser
- Meat and Regeneration with Ronnie Cummins – Sustainable Dish Episode 90
- Why the War on Meat? – Thumbs Up review of The Fat Emperor Podcast #16 By Ivor Cummins
- Why Eating Meat is Good for You – by Chris Kresser
- 20 Ways EAT Lancet’s Global Diet is Wrongfully Vilifying Meat – Sustainable Dish
Environmental Issues / Using Livestock to Improve Climate:
See more: Cattle & Climate
- Emerging land use practices rapidly increase soil organic matter – Nature Communications volume 6, Article number: 6995 (2015)
- Allan Savory: How to fight desertification and reverse climate change – Ted Talk
- It’s Not the COW, it’s the HOW: New Study Shows Grass-fed Beef Can be a Carbon Sink
- The Least Harm Principle May Require That Humans Consume A Diet Containing Large Herbivores, Not A Vegan Diet
- The Truth About Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Livestock Production with Frank Mitloehner – Sustainable Dish Episode 83
- Livestock’s Contributions to Climate Change: Facts and Fiction
- Clearing the Air: Livestock’s Contribution to Climate Change, Maurice E.Pitesky*Kimberly R.Stackhouse†Frank M.Mitloehner†
- Pleistocene Park – Restore high productive grazing ecosystems in the Arctic and mitigate climate change
- Savory Institute – Regeneration of the world’s grasslands through Holistic Management to address the global issues of desertification, climate change, and food and water insecurity.
- Roam Ranch
- Impacts of soil carbon sequestration on life cycle greenhouse gas emissions in Midwestern USA beef finishing systems
- The Nutritional Environment & Ethical Case for Regenerative Agriculture – Vimeo – Diana Rodgers
- Defending Beef’s Issuu page (viewable journal articles and white papers in their entirety)
- Defending Beef’s Pinterest page (compilation of articles and videos, organized by topic)
Media:
- Allan Savory’s TED Talk (video)
- Soil Carbon Cowboys (video)
- One Hundred Thousand Beating Hearts (video)
- Can Dirt Save the Earth? (NYT piece by Moises Velasquez-Manoff)
- If you want to save the world, veganism isn’t the answer
- A climate change solution beneath our feet (WashPo piece by UC Davis)
- Doing What Works: Sloppy Science is Damaging Rangelands & Wildlife (article discussing why removing cattle from land isn’t the solution)
Articles:
- Meat Is Magnificent: Water, Carbon, Methane & Nutrition
- The Missing Tool without Which Climate Change Cannot Be Addressed
- How Much Feed Does It Take to Produce a Pound of Beef?
- It’s Not the COW, It’s the HOW: New Study Shows Grass-Fed Beef Can Be a Carbon Sink
- More protein, better protein
- Vertical Farms: Thermodynamic Nonsense
- Why Fake Burgers Make No Sense
Podcasts: