Please forgive the ego in the intro :)
It’s such a difficult balance, trying to be a helpful part of the living world, and yet working on my own growth and ‘journey of my soul’, by which I refer to my trying to be as insignificant as possible and to keep my interventions in other people’s universes to a minimum, because I’m at that stage of life/growth in which I’m probably best working on myself and very little else :)
Anyway - this is the rambling that I cut from my comment on the wonderful piece by Nina Teicholz
From my study/teaching ethical governance over many years, prior to which I'd worked/headed/consulted/coached in huge corporations, including nuclear industry, and since 2010 personal experience/work/innovation/education in deep health, notably grief/growth/healing/suicide, it's clear beyond doubt IMHO that the control/propaganda/brainwashing about diet has become a stealth system of pushing wealth and control (theft, plain and simple) to the few from the many, especially from c.500 years ago (Columbian revolution - sugar, slaves, tea, etc).
It's a leveraging of trauma and addictions to sedate and create dependency; and then through the industrial and computer/comms/information revolutions, so that stealth and trickery developed into a much cleverer conditioned acquiescence of the enslaved.
So that populations willingly enabled the harvesting of their own (all of our) human activity/data to where we are now.
So that we gave our souls away and then became indebted (almost everyone) for ever, trying to buy them back.
Now, it seems we are at a very serious evolutionary fork in the road (no pun intended Jen Unwin :)
IMHO red meat is a part of a game that's so vast as to determine what it is to be human.
Gates seems to have been a very sick man for decades; and probably all of his life.
So too basically any other billionaire, and certainly nearly all politicians and their most senior administrators.
They can’t help it. They were themselves traumatised and/or born very unhelpfully.
Nick Duffell's work (e.g., 'Wounded Leaders' and 'The Making of Them' explains very well the dysfunctions with which global systems of governance operate and characterise capitalism and really every aspect of life, and death, in such evil and destructive ways. This is essentially (and pathetically briefly summarising Nick Duffell’s transcendently brilliant work) about the damage done to boys (and girls) sent away to boarding schools be abused, broken and 'negatively disintegrated' (related see Dabrowski - Theory of Positive Disintegration - positivedisintegration.com) in order for systems and parents of power and ambition to develop psychopathic narcissistic 'leaders'.
This is about the denial of compassionate balance and hope in leaderships globally, and the subjugation of women since the ending of the nomadic hunter gatherers civilisations 10,000 years ago (agricultural revolution), mindful that two centuries ago the Native American Indians were still clinging on to their extraordinary and beautifully ‘connected’ ways of life, and death - connected to nature and what they understood of freedom and ‘ownership’ and the cosmos and time and space.
My firm view now, happily, is that compassion, love, hope and balance - a peaceful world - and the resurgence of the feminine spirit in harmony and cooperation with the male - cybernetics merging with love is another view of this - is all inevitable and happening as we live and breathe, even though these are very unsettling times.
The universes (because there are surely many and likely infinite) know what they are doing.
Red meat, and every other aspect of diet, now serve as metaphors to educate about our design since climbing down from the trees: that we are human beings, not robots.
We are mind-body-soul born uniquely beautiful, and fearless and loving and vulnerably powerful; and it is only the brainwashing that convinces us otherwise.
What we can dream we can make real, especially of and for ourselves, so be careful what you wish for.
Apologies, I go off on different tangents because everything is connected.
I'm actually extremely thrilled to be able to post a comment here (actually that initially meant on Nina Teicholz’s unsettledscience.substack.com.
I'm attending the PHC/IFA Bristol conferences.
I'm 65 in September and experimenting with my own diet and fitness and having such fun.
Dandelion leaves, nettles, and all the meat and fat I can comfortable consume.
My partner Maria (long story - see LiveWildLiveFree.org for part of it) is 62 in November and on 9th April this year was assessed at Christian Dailly & Emma Prideau's 'Zone 1 (metabolic) Gym' to have a metabolic age of 32. She'll be about 25 by now I reckon :)
I can run hill marathons better than I could ten years ago. In fact I can run as far as I choose, although prefer to keep to low intensity exercise, because I understand its incredible powers, and also the damage of stress and inflammation on mind and body.
And so, in closing, for anyone who read this far :) I have a serious study/educational/corporate perspective on all this (Businessballs.com is a clue), and a personal lived experience including suicide and some dark stuff about death that I generally don't share very readily because (while it's beautiful to me - e.g., read The Savage God by Al Alvarez, about suicide) - it is unsettling to people less advanced in their own 'journey of the soul'.
Thanks and love, Alan