Lab-Grown Meat

There's nothing creepy about growing meat in a lab. But there is something more inherently creepy about the way Big Agriculture deal with the animals that we eat. ... They live a horrible life, and they often die quite cruelly. Lab- cultured meat can play an important role in the future: Not only could it help feed the planet, but it could also help solve environmental problems stemming from conventional meat production. So the idea of being able to eliminate some of that is extremely exciting to me.

Why Grassfed Animal Products Are Better For You

www.mercola.com - January 30th, 2013

A Quick Review of the Fats That Make Up Your Body

All food fats are a blend of the different types, saturated and unsaturated. Unsaturated fats include poly- and monounsaturated fats. omega-3s and 6s are types of polyunsaturated fats, called essential because we have to get them from food, our bodies can't manufacture them from other fats.

The Story on the the Good Fats and Bad Fats

Whereas cellular proteins are genetically determined, the polyunsaturated fatty acids composition of all cell membranes is to a great extent dependent on the dietary intake.

There are many kinds of fats in the body. Some of the most crucial fats are in the list of compounds that make up the cell walls for all of the body's cells.

After isolating these fats scientific experiments determined that if the ratio of omega 6 fats to omega 3 fats exceeds 4:1, people have more health problems. This is especially meaningful since grain-fed beef can have ratios that exceed 20:1 whereby grass-fed beef is down around 3:1.

Similar ratios are also found in all grain-fed versus grass-fed livestock products.

Grassfed products are rich in all the fats now proven to be health-enhancing, but low in the fats that have been linked with disease.

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Grass Fed Beef Brisket Roast

I 4 lb lean grass fed beef brisket

1 tablespoon paprika

1 tablespoon fresh garlic garlic

1 tablespoon fresh minced red onion

1 tablespoon chili powder

1 teaspoon cayenne pepper

1 tablespoon brown sugar

1 tablespoon molasses

2 tablespoons sea salt

1 tablespoon black pepper

3 tablespoons extra olive oil

1 tablespoon cumin

Preheat oven to 300 F

Combine all the ingredients except brisket. Add beef brisket, making sure to coat the beef generously.  Leave to sit in room temperature for 1 hour. Put meat on a rack in a roasting pan and cover the top of the beef loosely with foil. Roast for 7 hours. Turn heat off and leave to sit in the oven until serving time.