The Yes2Meat Newsletter Launch
Welcome to the first edition!
Our mission is to promote the benefits of a meat-based diet as a counter to the anti-meat rhetoric that’s leading far too many the wrong way. Say Yes 2 Meat!
🥩 Hello Meatlings,
Welcome to the first Yes2Meat newsletter!
We’re here because we are SICK and TIRED of all the plant-based propaganda, virtue signaling, glorifying plant protein, and the fallacy that plants are superior.
This misinformation (lol at that word) hurts so many by leading them down paths that won’t help them.
We know that wonderful people in the world are doing the right thing: spreading the good word on why animal meat is necessary for optimal health, and others are saving the planet with regenerative agriculture, but everything is so spread apart and disconnected.
We’re hoping this can be a central hub where we can collaborate, connect, and share so that our voices, our dollars, and our votes do more.
That is why we collaborated to create the world’s best resource for the pro-meat community.
This will be your go-to place for all that is meat: honoring it, butchering it, preparing it, understanding the science demonstrating the fantastic health benefits of it, and clearing up confusion around its “supposed cause” of cancer + heart disease.
We will explore past pioneers such as Weston A. Price and introduce you to those in the trenches now: researchers in the field, innovators creating unique products, and ranchers raising animals humanely and tending to the earth.
We care about the earth, but we don’t believe severely reducing or eliminating the one food our species has eaten for millions of years is the answer. We believe (science agrees) that we can have the best of both worlds: eat meat and help the planet with regenerative agriculture. Lastly, we also want to party, so we will share any events supporting this philosophy.
Think of this newsletter and the future content efforts as an evergreen resource you will want to keep coming back to, and a place you can confidently send your friends and loved ones.
You’ll see many published papers questioning the USDA MyPlate guidelines, and you’ll have plenty of resources to share with your plant-based friends. We hope to build directories supporting local farmers who grow animals with regenerative farming practices and products we love.
In addition to being animal-based, a species-appropriate diet would include other whole foods prepared with ancient techniques like fermentation, sprouting, and broth made from bones. We reject processed foods, sugar substitutes, artificial anything, and seed oils. We disregard mainstream nutrition guidelines and do not fear fat or cholesterol.
Lastly, we support change-makers advocating for common-sense nutrition reform. For instance, the Nutrition Coalition works hard in DC to pressure the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) until they’re released from financial conflicts of interest.
The DGAC is the expert committee that oversees the science used to write the Dietary Guidelines IE USDA MyPlate. 95% of members from the last committee had financial ties to a food or pharma company, uncovered by researchers. The Nutrition Coalition is also working to get whole milk back into schools.
Okay, lastly, to be successful, we need you!
We shared our ideas on what we envision this movement to look like, but we want to hear your ideas; let’s define them together.
Please send us your ideas; we want to hear them.
✌🏻 and ribeyes,
-Miranda MS, LN & The Yes2Meat Team
What to expect below:
📰 News, Science + Research The latest information related to protein intake, climate change and meat intake, regenerative farming, insights on the Big Pharma, Big Food, Big Ag and more
🤣 Memes, Amusements + Musings Because it’s important to not take life too seriously and to question the status quo.
⚖️ Useful Stuff + Random Shit Life hacks, health and fitness tips and anything else that can help us sync with the ancestral lifestyle and make life easier.
💯 Feature A product, person, or company that is doing the right thing by us.
🥩 The Power of Ancestral Eating We will see amazing health transformations. Send us your photos + stories! 📸
🎪 Events Either virtual or in person, we’ll tell you what’s happening in the meat-based world.
👀 Must-Sees Whether it's a book, podcast, or YouTube video, here’s what we think you should check out.
Onward!
📰 News & 🔬 Research
🥛 Sen. Marshall Fights to Bring Whole Milk Access To All Schools. The bill was introduced in the senate only a few days ago, June 13th thanks to the Nutrition Coalition. Ask your senators to cosponsor; it would be great to move this thing forward! PLEASE DO THIS 🙏🙏🙏
🍖 A new weight loss strategy? A study shows a high protein, high-fiber, and good fat diet may have the answers since diets may not work in long-term weight loss unless we factor in how satisfied and full we feel. By choosing foods that are high in fibre, protein, and healthy fats, you can increase satiety and reduce the likelihood of overeating. This approach encourages the inclusion of nutrient-dense options. This kind of food-based approach can be motivating for people to integrate the idea of having a diet plan in their daily life.
🐟 Common ingredient found in meat, fish, and energy drinks could extend your life and health, say scientists. Foods including the highest levels of taurine are shellfish - like scallops, clams, and mussels - as well as dark chicken and turkey meat.
🔥 Random $hit
🌡️ Make perfectly cooked meat, every time: get a meat thermometer
🌷 Beef Jerky Flowers: “The manliest, meatiest bouquet ever” for your dad.
🐟 Sardines are the highest food source of creatine
🤪 Meme
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🔗 Useful Links
🧠 How To Think in Funnels → Applicable to business and life. Accomplishing anything requires countless small iterations along the way.
🐌 Slow down: Your Brain is Begging You to Slow Down → A great piece covering the modern psychological paradigm / trap of our age. Personally, I’ve struggled with adrenal fatigue these past few months, which I believe is connected to a rapid rise in projects, responsibilities, expenses, employees, and complexity. -Colin
🌳 Nurtured by nature: Psychological research is advancing our understanding of how time in nature can improve our mental health and sharpen our cognition. → We get this. I get it. You get it. But what are we doing about it? Sometimes going to the trail in the hot Austin heat with the kids feels unproductive, tiresome, and uncomfortable. But the benefits are worth it. Try it: The fastest way to upgrade your daily routine is to get outside each morning to soak up the sun’s rays and walk barefoot.
🎪 Events
Old Salt Festival in Montana
Celebrating the important role of livestock in managing land and as part of the food system, Old Salt Festival blends wood-fired cooking of local beef, lamb, and pastured pork with compelling music, art, and spoken word from the region. It all takes place on the Mannix Ranch in the Blackfoot Valley near Helmville, June 23-25, 2023. The ranch is situated immediately south of the Bob Marshall Wilderness and Glacier National Park. Get your tickets now! (Meals are included in the ticket price, and kids under 10 are free.)
2023 Carnivore Summit
Welcome to the very 1st virtual Carnivore Summit featuring more than 40 interviews and masterminds with practitioners and researchers sharing the science and power of Carnivore. Each discussion shares different health topics in the context of a meat-based diet and its use as a therapeutic dietary intervention. Discover the benefits of a holistic dietary approach from specialists ranging from metabolic disease to nutritional psychiatry. JUNE 19 - JUNE 25, 2023 Claim your free spot!
Twitterings 3x
🎥 The Reversed Docuseries by Ken Barry
👀 Wow
🚀 Meat Transformations
Please share your transformation, and we’ll feature it in a future edition!
Jennifer’s Transformation Age: 38 Height: 5’ 7”
Diet: Lion Diet and Carnivore Diet
Exercise: Regular resistance training
Time on Diet: 1 month was spent on the Lion Diet to determine food sensitivities: "Everything is going great. I did strict Lion diet for a month and have slowly started adding things back one at a time. I’ve found that I have a skin reaction with sparkling water and with coffee but tolerating chicken and egg yolks just fine. The Lion diet has been an extremely helpful tool for finding out exactly what foods and beverages I am sensitive to."
And she has been on the Carnivore Diet for 1.5 years now.
Health problems resolved: -Psoriasis -Vasculitis -Chronic strep throat -Binge eating disorder -Acne
🪣 Buckets of Time
How to have buckets of time by Basecamp co-founder David Hansson → an excellent piece on batching things into buckets. I love thinking about tasks this way:
“One of the most important techniques I've embraced for managing my time is to direct related tasks to a bucket, let that bucket accumulate until full, then empty it all in one go.”
Attention is the scarce resource:
“Too many people delude themselves into thinking they can parallelize a million things at once, but they can't. Multitasking is a mirage. Humans run single-core CPUs. All they can do is swap context in and out, losing ever more to switching costs as they do. 2”
🤔 To Ponder
"TO BE A SUCCESSFUL FARMER ONE MUST FIRST
KNOW THE NATURE OF THE SOIL."
-Xenophon of Athens, (431BC – 354BC). Greek historian, philosopher, and student of Socrates.
Do you think the modern farmers using glyphosate and huge machines know anything about the soil? 🤔
🚨 Biohack
Red Light / Near Infrared Therapy
Nearly every disease state known to man has been linked to low mitochondrial activity. Understanding which foods and factors enhance metabolism, and which inhibit it are paramount for successfully preventing or reversing disease.”
―Mark Sloan, Red Light Therapy: Miracle Medicine
When I realized our bodies have light needs, everything changed.
Getting ☀️ each morning went from a "nice to do" to a MUST DO OR ELSE.
Reducing blue light exposure at night using Nightshift (F.lux app), using blue light blockers, and replacing all our regular blue bulbs with orange glow bulbs changed from "hack" to THE ONLY WAY TO LIVE FoRever.
It all started when I dug into the research on red and near-infrared light. (Check out this spreadsheet with over 5000 published studies 🤯).
Read more in the Wild Light Guide…
🙌 Feature
Nutrition Coalition For Dietary Policy Based on Rigorous Science led by John Bates. Nutrition Coalition is our voice in DC. To elaborate from above, they are working with Senator Chuck Grassley to pressure the DGAC to pause its work until they’re released from financial conflicts of interest. You can read about it here. This is unprecedented and the most attention Congress has ever paid to this issue.
Whole milk in schools - Whole milk is currently banned in public schools across the country. John was in DC this last week, speaking at a policy briefing with the Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, GT Thompson in support of his legislation to put it back in schools. This bill was voted out of committee last week, and they are working to shore up support before it goes to a full vote. You can read their letter on the subject here.
They are also focused on the current drafting of the Dietary Guidelines and a few items in the Farm Bill, currently making its way through Congress. Please message your senators, in order for anything to change, they need to hear us loud and clear! 📢
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