Responding to recent calls by environmental groups such as WWF
and Friends of the Earth (FOE) to dramatically reduce meat
consumption, Philip Ridley of nutritional charity the Weston A.
Price Foundation told Globalmeatnews.com that grass-fed meat is
a vital source of vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids,
and that advising people to avoid it could have dire
consequences for health. “Grass fed meat has a healthy balance
of omega 3 and omega 6 and is rich in minerals and vitamins A
and K2. Animals also produce vitamin D from sunshine. Fat
soluble vitamins A, D and K2 are required to metabolise protein
and utilise minerals in the diet. "The ‘sustainable’ low fat
diet is therefore a recipe for nutritional deficiencies and
degenerative disease,” he said. Ridley added that the theory
that meat and saturated fat cause heart disease and cancer had
never been scientifically proven and was based on biased and
flawed research. “Many health charities claiming to fight
diseases like heart disease run with this flaw