Farm Extensively, Not Just Intensively

A friend sent an article called "The Last Conversation You’ll Ever Need to Have About Eating Right" by cook book author Mark Bittman and MD David Katz which I found sensible, and based on actual nutrition science (the less biased variety of nutrition science) and human history.

http://www.grubstreet.com/2018/03/ultimate-conversation-on-healthy-eating-and-nutrition.html

While reading the thought occurred to me there's an easy way to think about this:  how to eat when we're literally surrounded by food technology is how our early ancestors ate. There's a lot of debate about what that was, but it's basically quite simple - they ate what was available. What was available was what nature "forced" them to eat, which varied depending on location on the planet, season, year, etc. But it was all real food. Some of it was considerably more nutritious than most of the rest of it. The people lucky enough to be where that was did better.

There's a line in the article "fish is unquestionably the healthiest animal protein to eat" Which reminded me of a Ted Talk I came across recently by fish lovin chef Dan Barber titled "How I Fell in Love with a Fish", that I found both funny, very insightful, and where the title of this post "Farm Extensively, Not Just Intensively" was borrowed: