Meat is an animal product.

    Ecological implications: The production of meat (including beef, poultry, pork, and sheep) creates more harmful greenhouse gases than the exhaust of all the cars, trucks, and other motor vehicles combined, according to Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. This includes clear-cut removal of forest lands and rain forests to create grazing and feed lands, feed lands that require growing 16 times as much plant food for the creation of one pound (or one kilogram) of animal food (meat and poultry), and huge amounts of animal burbs and farts when grown in factory farming.

• history
• nutritional information
• Chinese herbology
• cautions and contraindications

history:

    History: The English word “meat” originally meant all food. Over time it came to mean only food that was prepared and served on a plate and in modern times means the flesh of dead animals. The famous English folk saying “One man’s meat is another man’s poison” is a reference to food in general rather than specifically to things like steak and hamburgers.

nutritional information:

    Meat is a source of iodine, iron, and protein.

    A 2007 study showed that “low plasma selenium is independently associated with poor skeletal muscle strength in community-dwelling older adults in Tuscany.” That is, low selenium levels may cause muscle weakness. The study conducted by the Tuscany regional Agency (Florence, Italy), John Hopkins School of Medicine (Baaltimore, Maryland), Azienda Sanitaria Firenze (Florence, Italy), Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography and Biometry, National Institute of Aging (Bethesda, Maryland), and Longitudinal Studies Section, Clinical Research Branch, Natinal Institute on Aging(Blatimore, Maryland) and published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 86, No.2, pages 347-352, August 2007.
    Sources of selenium include Brazil nuts, sesame seeds, legumes, and meat.

    “It may indeed be doubted whether butchers’ meat is anywhere a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of milk, cheese, and butter, or oil, where butter is not to be had, afford the most plentiful, the most wholesome, the most nourishing, and the most invigorating diet. Decency nowhere requires that any man should eat butchers’ meat.”, Adam Smith (British economist).

Chinese herbalism:

    Chinese: strongly yang

cautions and contraindications:

    Cautions and contraindications: You want to reduce or eliminate meat from your diet.

• beef
• gelatin
• haggis
• lamb
• preserved meat
• offal

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