someone mentioned a scenario with vegans roaming the streets with weapons looking for meat eaters.. its a joke, veganism is a compassionate movement, dont confuse the vegetarian including ALF type groups who are raging hypocrites, you cant indict someone for eating animals when you drink their milk and take their eggs etc.

Time & planning/preparation make a big difference. I definitely do best when time is not too cramped – easier to get in the walking & easier to plan & execute meals. It’s always good to have foods you can assemble quickly for those days when time is less plentiful. Foods I find helpful – canned salmon (or smoked salmon), cheese – love that Kerrygold Dubliner cheese that Costco sells in big blocks, cut veggies like carrots, celery, radishes. I make a big pot-o-chili which provides leftovers for a few days’ lunch. Same for making a big pot roast.

Also, I’m not into deprivation. I keeps some things around like dark chocolate and red wine, which, in modest amounts add pleasure (and antioxidants). I’ll IF once or twice a week, usually in conjunction with my lifting day – boost that GH, baby!

I do have a problem with dragging morality into it. Whether or not you personally believe that the ends justifies the means is moot. The fact is, people who believe they are on the moral high ground tend to find this an easy path to take. Such idealists feel justified imposing their views on non-idealists. And it leads intelligent people to do all sorts of idiotic things like, say, be an apologist for Stalin (G.B. Shaw, et al).

Everyone standing on the moral high ground believes their worldview consists of simple consistent criteria, and all of these worldviews have their extremists.

Has Jeff tried supplementing with magnesium ? It is one of the most common recommendations for both sleepless nights and persistent headache on a national forum for low-carb.(I’m in Norway) Recommended doses varies greatly but the most common are between 200 and 400 mg, 30 minutes before bed, as magnesium will make you drowsy.

http://books.google.com/books?id=5ELpAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA4932&lpg=PA4932&dq=Paleosphere&source=bl&ots=1WuPtw5m8e&sig=5FooJTdAtpjN5mqZnsGSWDt1T7Y&hl=en&ei=tIWlS4qNC4LGlQe-tux1&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CCAQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Paleosphere&f=false

At least try to make a living (like u do right now) in Greece, Spain or Portugal (the next bankrupt) and see how it is to live under nations who are more headed to the “common good”.

I bet Europe is romanticized in your country, but for real, Greece is one of the countries whose standard was “The common good”
Think of the others, the poor : they said this shit all the time and asked for fresh money from the EU for several years, because those “poor people” try so hard to get it done. HAHA The other Countries need to push up the poor ( bankrupt ) countries and shouldn’t be so selfish. Collectivism was the answer and now there is riot, savings by the Greece are kinda worthless, as well as payments to public insurances.

You’ll regret everything u said

Yes, let us limit our freedoms, especially when the unleashing of technology through unhindered industry and research firms along with universal property rights with property laws would solve the majority of the environmental problems we squander in today. How absolutely nauseating that comment is. I really don’t think people understand what freedom means anymore. A bit disheartening since we had the liked of “can I find some food underneath the masses of bodies” Russia and Nazi Germany were only a few decades ago.

How will your gun help me do that?

Awareness is just that. It’s not a mandate that you must eat a certain way. It’s not a pronouncement that some inherently have the right to eat meat but others do not. Simply, without awareness, you can’t make intelligent choices about what you do eat.

For instance, it wasn’t until fairly recently that people realized that not all meat was created equal, and that some meats were pumped full of hormones and antibiotics while others were pasture raised at lower population densities. The meats that were not finished with grain and unadulterated by hormones and antibiotics had a much healthier fatty acid profile, as Loren Cordain’s book, “The Paleo Diet”, made clear.

Raising livestock without antibiotics and growth hormones also means that the incidence of drug-resistant strains of bacteria is lower.That has a tremendous benefit for public health. Since livestock are breeding grounds for human diseases, minimizing or eliminating our reliance on factory-farming methods give us a better chance, as a general population, of staying healthy and ahead of the ’superbugs’, not to mention the viruses that thrive and recombine in potentially deadly new biological cocktails on high density poultry and pig farms.

Where animal husbandry in a traditional form (ie, grass-fed, no grain finishing, longer time to market) fails is in producing enough quantity to satisfy the tastes of Western consumers. People are used to being able to get cheap meat. And unfortunately, the ground beef in a McDonald’s burger is nothing like what Paleo hunters speared, stoned, or ran to death in the wild. It’s also extremely resource intensive to raise animals in a factory-farm setting, which raises questions about the long term environmental sustainability of such an approach.

No problem, right? You could say, ‘it’s a free market, so I’ll just buy the good stuff.’ And that’s what many of us, as practitioners of paleo-style eating, do, because we have the means and opportunity. But if you approach nutrition as a cornerstone of health, and you shift your focus from personal health to public health, you see a different picture. There are over 1 billion people who suffer from hunger, and protein energy malnutrition is rampant (from worldhunger.org). While it would be nice for those people who are suffering to be able to eat meat every day, or even every week, it’s not going to happen. Awareness of such inequality, especially when the contrast between the haves and the have-nots is so large, is one step towards making more informed decisions.