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I eat meat nearly every meal. Mostly beef, fish, and pork. I don't care for chicken, but do eat it occasionally. I love pheasant, (watch out for the shot) turkey, duck and buffalo. If meat is not in the meal, eggs or cheese usually are. I follow a high protein and low carb (paleolithic diet) lifestyle. I don't pay much attention to the amount of fat, but do avoid hydrogenated oils and other transfats like the plague they are.
I eat salad veggies, broccoli, cabbage, squash, mushrooms, etc. I love berries, grapes, nuts, and cantaloupe. I avoid potatoes, wheat, corn, rice and other high starch agricultural products. I avoid high fructose corn sweetener in particular, and sugar in general.
I am a proud carnivore, and I'm healthy as a horse.
This is the diet that humans, over 4 million years, evolved (Happy 200th, Charles Darwin!) to eat . That is 200,000 generations.
Agriculture has only been around for a few hundred generations. Whether we like it or not even the vegans among us genetically ARE carnivores.
As far as "footprint" goes, the problem is not in the size of our footprints, it is in the number of them. In other words, there's too many of us. And for that we can thank agriculture.
Lindy
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