One way to identify the optimal human diet, pretty obvious to all but fundamentalist reductionists, is to survey and compare populations as they already exist, and see what they eat and how healthy they are.

The people who eat the most animal protein have the most heart disease, cancer and diabetes.

Let’s start with the most prominent ecological crisis of our time: global warming. When you look seriously at the numbers, you find that switching from a meat-based to a plant-based diet would do more to curb and reverse global warming than any other initiative.

In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians.

Americans love to hear good things about their bad habits.

Everything in food works together to create health or disease. The more we think that a single chemical characterizes a whole food, the more we stray into idiocy.

Protein during promotion trumps the carcinogen, regardless of initial exposure.