Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It

Animal foods often contain compounds that harm health (i.e., hormones and antibiotics)

Racemization isn’t the only problem with meat consumption. Due to inhumane treatment of livestock animals, they produce a highly toxic byproduct of stress—an adrenaline metabolite called adrenochrome, which catabolizes (wastes and destroys) muscles and other tissues in the body. This metabolite occurs in high concentrations in the meat that we eat,

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the Primal Blueprint would argue that eating only “clean” meats, avoiding nitrosamine-laden processed meats, using appropriate cooking techniques (like slow-roasting, undercooking, or using crock pots or sous-vide cookers), enjoying a variety of different forms of animal foods, eschewing deep-fried or high-heat barbequed meats, or eating certain fo

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There’s a myth that animal protein is a superior protein because it’s complete, and protein derived from plants (vegetable protein) is inferior because it’s incomplete