Another Reason To Skip That Beef Burger

Yet another health-based reason to avoid meat……….

A recent 2-year study run by A. Hope Jahren and Rebecca Kraft, of the National Academy of Science, used more than 480 servings of fast food meals containing beef, chicken, and french fries from McDonald’s, Burger King, and Wendy’s to measure the levels of carbon and nitrogen isotopes in the food. Jahren and Kraft were looking for corn and they were looking for signs of confinement, as evidenced by diet. (Confined animals end up eating their own waste).

Corn is a cheap way to quickly increase the size of livestock, but it’s part of the natural diet of a cow and it produces an animal that is fatter than if it was fed a traditional diet of grass.  Evidence of a corn-based diet was found at all three restaurants, although Burger King did have some samples that showed some grass-fed beef.

Fatter animals leads to fattier meat and fattier meat leads to fatter humans who ingest meat.  Overweight humans have a higher risk of cancer, heart attack, diabetes, high blood pressure………… the list goes on. 

Skip the Big Mac. Enjoy your corn while it’s on the cob, not in the bun.