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Sacred Cow
- The Case for (Better) Meat
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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Summary
We’re told that if we care about our health - or our planet - eliminating red meat from our diets is crucial. That beef is bad for us and cattle farming is horrible for the environment. But science says otherwise.
Beef is framed as the most environmentally destructive and least healthy of meats. We’re often told that the only solution is to reduce or quit red meat entirely. But despite what anti-meat groups, vegan celebrities, and some health experts say, plant-based agriculture is far from a perfect solution. In Sacred Cow, registered dietitian Diana Rodgers and former research biochemist and New York Times best-selling author Robb Wolf explore the quandaries we face in raising and eating animals - focusing on the largest (and most maligned) of farmed animals, the cow.
Taking a critical look at the assumptions and misinformation about meat, Sacred Cow points out the flaws in our current food system and in the proposed “solutions”. Inside, Rodgers and Wolf reveal contrarian but science-based findings, such as:
- Meat and animal fat are essential for our bodies
- A sustainable food system cannot exist without animals
- A vegan diet may destroy more life than sustainable cattle farming
- Regenerative cattle ranching is one of our best tools at mitigating climate change
You’ll also find practical guidance on how to support sustainable farms and a 30-day challenge to help you transition to a healthful and conscientious diet. With scientific rigor, deep compassion, and wit, Rodgers and Wolf argue unequivocally that meat (done right) should have a place on the table.
It’s not the cow, it’s the how!
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-09-22
Great arguments for food and health
Loved the subject. Very well researched. Quite information heavy, but comes with a PDF you can check out. Loved it. It wasn't exactly entertaining, but very thought provoking. Highly recommend.
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- Joanne Isaac
- 11-11-21
Thought provoking.
An extremely well-balanced and informative book whether you're a carnivore or vegetarian. Good read.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-03-23
Opened my eyes
I was well on my way to become a vegan because of ethical reasons but this book has provided me the insights to look at the total picture based on thorough research and facts and not the cherry picking, often dogmatic perspective of vegan promoters. Now I feel like I was brainwashed by the later group!
The performance is not well but the importance of the content has outweighed it by far and made me continue to listen. Great book, highly recommend it.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-11-21
Have we got the courage to strike out for freedom to save our world
Extremely interesting text well written and read challenges everyone of us to act now individually to begin to heal our world. Nothing will alter if l Waite for change change comes when someone starts to move in a different direction causes a ripple governments, are driven by fear for their own skins .Prop up our economies keep the population in a relative state of comfort as they tread the slippery path to hell.Use the media to keep them in a state of anguish. But change starts with me from little acorns great oaks grow if l allow it.l want to leave here feeling that just maybe l ve helped to start a revolution. A ripple can become a breaker over a stretch of time.Please strike out for freedom from economical tyranny and help save our beautiful planet for our children
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- Anonimo Nonlodico
- 20-09-20
A must read!
Very well written, thorough and sensible examination of a vitally important subject. Highly recommended! Everyone should read this book.
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- Mrspatriciacherry
- 14-08-21
Informative
I will be recommending anyone who tell me they are going to become vegan, read this book.
I wish I could remember all the information here, but just to be able to say read the book will be enough. Thank you.
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- Amazon Customer
- 31-10-21
Interesting and well argued
I doubt everyone will agree with the book or their opinion, in many ways I find it surprisingly thoughtful and it's conclusions not mainstream. If correct it is an important book, if slightly ruined by its hurrah for paleo diet.
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- Mrs. N. Artamonova
- 11-08-21
Truly so
It is nice to read a scientific book that challenges dogma of how anymals are bad for our planet and how their meat is bad for our health. Carbon counting is a dodgy business where one can easily forget to count or double count things depending on where the money come from. I loved the book.
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- Michelle Brown
- 24-11-22
Fascinating listen!
Really enjoyed this audiobook. Incredibly well structured and informative. The arguments put forward were well supported with scientific research
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-03-21
Moo-ving
The Sacred Cow offers critical challenges to how we understand how food systems operate.
There is no such thing as a bloodless plate but animals don't have to be raised in poor conditions. Effective management of livestock can positively impact emissions too. The book dips its toes into the potential damage to ourselves and environments we could cause by going meat free.
Tim Spector's Diet Myth indicates through studies that each of us have unique digestive systems so certain diets won't yield the same results, even in twins. Therefore conjecture about diet efficacy can only be deduced as speculative.
This book is for anyone wanting to understand how we might consider more ethical farming and eating methods.
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