Exactly what I came here to say. It doesn't have to be all-or-nothing; you don't have to "be paleo". You can follow "the rules" as best you can and still get most of the benefits. CAFO beef likely isn't as good for you as free-range/pastured, but it IS probably better for you than a plate full of pasta. Or if you just have to have the free-range, go for the less expensive cuts. Roasts are generally much less expensive than steaks. Get bones and make a good, nutrient-dense stock. Try out some organ meats, which are full of vitamins and also tend to be inexpensive. Make intelligent choices when you eat out. Doing something 50% right for your health is still better than not trying because 100% seems unattainable.

lol @ "under this program". because there are no other progams. none.

how exactly does this "laughed out of his job" comment demonstrate that OP didn't know he was a writer? is that some idiom that I'm unaware of, or are you failing at reading comprehension?

so I'll just wait and read the story when timothy dupes it later this week

that's how the metamod works.

not the poster you're replying to, but i felt the need to throw down my couple cents. i tried vegetarian/vegan for quite a while, but my body simply could not thrive. no matter how much "good" veg protein i got (and i'm a bit of a crazy about my diet...), no matter how much i wanted to save the animals, i just couldn't stay healthy. i can't speak for all humans, but from what i can tell from my own biology, i'm an omnivore - i have the teeth and digestive system of one. i require nutrients from both plant and animal sources. i cannot perform up to my full potential without animal products.

once i'd realized that, it came down to personal ethics. i refuse to buy meat (or most anything, really) from grocery stores. i'm lucky enough to live somewhere with lots of farms and markets; i speak with the farmers about the creatures they raise for slaughter, about how they're cared for, housed, and fed. there are proper ways to do these things, to raise livestock humanely and feed it a species-appropriate diet - so it can be healthy enough to live well and also be properly nourishing to those who consume it.

and to the poster you were replying to, you've got a noble goal there. i just recently took up hunting and would love to be able to bag enough wild game to greatly reduce or eliminate my dependence on farms altogether. until then, i'll choose the friendly local farmers.

check out black soldier flies. they can be farmed in nifty little bins by pretty much anyone. the larvae will eat damn near anything (plant/animal based food waste and excrement) and leave behind nothing but fertilizer and fat larvae, which make nutritious feed for aquaponic setups or chickens. the adults live only a couple days; they exist only to mate, and do not bite or sting. they are not known to be a vector for any human pathogens, and they generally buzz off to die once they're done mating.

don't worry; the wealthy and influential immortals will keep the population down with breeding controls, eugenics, famine, drought, and war. oh, and of course restrictions on who may access anti-aging tech/pharma.

My excessive coffee drinking is a symptom of my shitty lifestyle.

My excessive coffee drinking is the cause of my awesome lifestyle. You're doing something wrong.

pigs and chickens are omnivores. anyone trying to sell you vegetarian-fed eggs/chicken is merely aiming at the market that thinks that vegetarian-fed somehow means better. chickens love to eat bugs, rodents, and lizards. a chicken raised strictly on grain is nutrient-deficient and probably shouldn't be eaten.

my guess is it's a spook. with all the attention that leaks are getting right now, it seems totally plausible for some paid contractor to draw up some "classified documents" about snowden's child-trafficking ring or assange's cannibal cookbook, stick 'em on dropbox, and plant a horseshit story like this on a tech blog. then you just eat some popcorn and wait for the next security breach. you don't even have to get your hands dirty cracking into anything yourself.

take into consideration what you could be learning from involving yourself with that community. i've learned many things from assholes; you don't have to agree with their methods, and you certainly don't have to let words from a stranger on the internet mean anything to you. you can choose to get over the delivery and focus on the message.

here's some mostly-on-topic george carlin on speaking directly, and the lack of it in modern america. nsfw, probably, because george carlin.

your turn for a citation. either point out to us where percy schmeiser ever admits to planting the monsanto seed, or shut the fuck up. all you've done this whole thread is try to prop up the multi-billion-dollar corporation, and you've provided no evidence. every single article i can find on percy schmeiser says that he's never admitted to planting monsanto seed, and he's defeated them in court more than once. they tried to make him sign a gag order before they'd pay to clean up his fields that their seed contaminated, and when he sued them instead, they paid up with no stipulations. so...citations?