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Good point. However, unless you are growing your own home grown organic veggies, you are likely getting far more chemical junk through your plant foods than your animal foods.
There is a body of growing evidence that meat-only is optimal for human health. And that roughage can very easily be overdone (the USDA currently has no limit on dietary cholesterol but limits daily dietary fiber intake), and studies have shown that too much fiber causes ... wait for it ... constipation of all things!
Most meats grown in the US are not fed antibiotics and are not treated with hormones. The plants these animals eat have the same pesticide profile as the plants we eat, and like us, those pesticides tend to get washed out through the urine or concentrate in organs far more than muscle (which is why we have plenty of cases of kidney and liver and brain cancer but very rarely does someone actually get a tumor in the muscle tissue.
Hi. I'm David. And since June I am a carnivore. I can't tell you the last time I ate a plant, other than it was probably May or June of this year (I'm thinking it was June). I may have had something plant sourced over the summer, but for the life of me I do not recall having anything but meat for almost six months.
Here is (was) my dinner tonight:
Not the best picture perhaps (I'm just an FE salesman, after all) ... this is oyster, shrimp, and bacon stew. The main ingredients were 8 ounces wild caught oysters, 8 wild caught shrimp, 8 slices of great value bacon from Wally World, 8 ounces of heavy cream, 1 ounce of kerry gold butter, and the liquid from the oysters. I did season it with celery salt, paprika, white pepper, and thyme - so not completely "plant free'" I suppose, but close enough to piss off Dr McDougall and his vegan cultists.
I try to limit my fish and seafood to "wild caught." However, I do like Tilapia, and good luck finding any of that fish that isn't farmed in some filthy Asian fish hatchery. I eat some "grass fed" beef, though I find it too lean and too tough (and frankly, too expensive) most of the time, so I prefer good old grain fed rib eye steaks and roasts, and chuck roast also. I know we talk about the bacon diet, but I eat a lot more than bacon. In fact, I am probably down to only two or three pounds of bacon per week, and usually my wife or my kids will snatch half of that from me before I can get it all down (no one in my family eats seafood but for me and my oldest daughter - and she is away at school right now, which is why my picture is just one lonely bowl of stew - tonight the rest of my family had pizza).
From everything I have read and lectures I have seen and heard from both sides of the food aisle, I have become close to convinced that 100% carnivorous is probably optimal for human health. However, I also think a whole foods omnivore diet is also a good choice for those who do not have health problems linked to plant consumption. I do think a vegan diet is a poor and distant third choice behind carnivore or whole foods omnivore, but likely better than the standard American diet of cookies, crackers, cakes, ice cream, and hyper processed grains and starches and buckets of sugar.
Eat meat, drink water ... and coffee.
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