Nutritional value of red meat

March 15th, 2013

Today someone asked me ‘what is the nutritional value of red meat’ (in a person’s diet).  Good question!  Unprocessed red meat includes a number of elements vital for human health. Nutrition and human health is an incredibly complicated field; research results often throw up conflicting views, some of which are later discredited. Above all – […]

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Australia 3rd for both life expectancy & meat consumption

March 6th, 2013

So much hot air is spoken about what a healthy diet consists of these days. And most of emanates from people with underlying attitudes, with an urge to steer the general population in a particular direction (veganism). Commonsense suggests the most intelligent course is to eat moderate amounts of good quality, sustainably produced food from […]

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Monocultures vs mixed farming (cropping plus livestock)

March 6th, 2013

A well written quote appeared in yesterday’s Townsville Bulletin Newspaper ‘Youth in Print’ section: “Monoculture is virtually the opposite of biodiversity.  Monocultures occur where a single species is grown – usually for commercial purposes – such as sugar cane or pine forests.  Soil decline with subsequent commercial yield reduction is associated with monocultural systems and […]

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Australian Wool & Lamb Production

November 6th, 2009

Riverina Merino sheep

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