Do not fear free range meats

The New York Times had an op-ed piece in April in which the author claimed that free range pigs were very very bad for your health.  Much more so than industrially raised and slaughtered ones.

Hmmm…maybe not so much.

The author, James E McWilliams, who also believes that people who eat mostly local foods are endangering the food supply (WHAT?!), used a study funded by – you guessed it – the National Pork Board to back up his claims.  And according so some, he misinterpreted the study anyway.

You can read the response of SlowFoodUSA here if you’d like more details, but for now, I don’t think that an author who cites tainted research is going to change my mind about my buying habits.

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