I’ve eaten an all-beef diet for 8 years.
I could start a different thread about this, but it’s not really relevant to iNaturalist IMO (although I can see the angle of agricultural impacts WRT habitat etc.).
Just adding some balance by adding a different perspective to the conversation.
All beef as in you literally eat nothing but beef?
Yes, about 99% beef, with maybe 1% of calories coming from other sources, for mental variety.
I’ve heard of the carnivore diet, but I believe that typically involves a variety of animal products. The “unless it moos, I refuse” diet is certainly a new one for me
Most carnivores in North America primarily eat beef. Any fatty red meat will do, but beef tends to be the most accessible in the North American context.
Over the years, most carnivores crave less variety. They also grow to like the taste of beef, eating steaks more rare, etc.
When you hear about carnivores eating a variety of animal foods, that usually involves newer carnivores who are still getting used to the idea of eating just one thing.
Same here. I enjoy beef as much as the next guy but would get tired of it pretty quickly if it was all I had to eat
You could survive on a pure meat diet. No vegetables needed! But to do that, you would have to eat every part of the animal. I’m talking about the organs, liver, brain, eyes, every single part. That is how da Eskimo do*.
*When plants are not availabe. Go eat your brocoli, kid.
This is because most of the vitamins and healthy stuff you find in plants is found in the organs.
You eat stuff like bread and rice, vegetables or no?
How is that healthy!!!
It probably isn’t, but tbh neither is the standard western diet of ultra processed slop, and we tend not to raise eyebrows at that…
I suppose “just beef” really simplifies the grocery store shopping list. although I doubt it makes it less expensive.
At the risk of being tremendously rude, how to you avoid the dreaded “carnivore odor”? I’m curious because I have several friends on the keto diet who eat primarily meat, and despite having a very weak sense of smell, I have to lie that I’m carsick and roll down the windows when we’re in the car together. One of them is having a wretched time dating, and we suspect the odor is part of the reason, so any intel that could help him, I’d love to know!
There is a lot of confusion in this thread, that I will respond to in a bit, if there is genuine interest and curiosity, and not just assumptions and judgement
Respectfully, can the Tell me more about the meat diet-ers start a new thread?
I have not participated again as I find it difficult to follow this thread, which keeps veering into that discussion, which has little to nothing to do with the topic and is just questioning of one person about their individual dietary choice but not as it relates to the topic.
I moved this to a new thread, but I’m going to set it to close on Monday since I think it’s a bit outside of the iNat Forum wheelhouse.
Totally fair, and I would have rather ended the the original topic than had it broken into this one!
There are still a few posts in the old topic that are responses to this topic
Agricultural production methods have a major impact on biodiversity