Comments on: A prehistoric paradigm: Q&A with Mark Sisson

By: Cavemen (and women): stay out of my 21st century - Katie Drummond - The Extreme Self - True/Slant

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:25:54 +0000

[...] Sunday’s Style section, the Times explores a diet fad that I’ve written up, with much skepticism, several times. To make a long, bizarre story short, the Caveman Diet is a food and fitness approach that mimics [...]

By: Katie Drummond

Katie Drummond — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:56:55 +0000

John: I’ll have to ask my next Paleo interview subject about fermentation. Good question! And yes, agreed, I’m not sure what my dish of choice would be, post-buffalo hunt, if it weren’t tofu and booze! Great minds think alike.

By: johndrummond

johndrummond — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:06:42 +0000

What about the role of fermentation in enhancing the nutrient quality of the paleolithic diet. That has to be up there with the wheel and making fire in enhancing the otherwise short and brutish lives of hunter gatherers. Imagine life without a cold beer to wash down that tofu stir fry after a tough day chasing buffalo over a cliff.

By: Katie Drummond

Katie Drummond — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:09:12 +0000

Erik. I totally agree with you that as it stands now, animal agriculture is wholly unsustainable, and absolutely so when compared to veganism. I think Mark’s point was that he wants to eliminate grain-fed animal agriculture and revert to pastoral, grass-fed systems. My biggest objection to this is simply that’s utopian and entirely unrealistic. Then again, maybe global veganism is too. It’s a tough question.

By: erikfritz

erikfritz — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:06:40 +0000

A vegan diet unsustainable? The largest non-CO2 greenhouse gas is methane and animal agriculture produces more than 100 million tons of methane a year. Raising animals poses a large impact on deforestation, land degradation, air pollution, water pollution, and bio diversity loss (by large impact I mean worldwide scale). Water used to produce 1 pound of wheat is 25 gallons and the amount of water to produce the same amount of meat is 2,500 gallons. & a vegan diet is unsustainable? Alright.