I have been thinking about a specific issue on toxins and the food chain and have kind of found conflicting information in this area.
On the Peat side, it seems his views are that animals provide a beneficial function in filtering out toxins and unwanted substances:
"The nutrients produced in the cow's rumen are selectively absorbed into the cow's bloodstream, where the liver can further filter out any toxins before the amino acids and other nutrients are absorbed by the udder to be synthesized into milk."- Milk in context: allergies, ecology, and some myths
As i understand it, drinking milk is preferable to vegetables (leaves and grass) because you are essentially leveraging of the filtration of the animals from which you are consuming their products.
However, there is a conflicting line of thought that would indicate the further up the food chain, the more toxins accumulate in the tissues of animals (particularly predators), implying that you should eat at the bottom of the fod chain (vegetables, or at least things like oysters. This theory seems particularly relevant for seafood, but i imagine it would also work as there would be contaminants in soil.
Can anyone offer an insight into this issue? is it that predators are all you should avoid, and since ruminants have significantly different digestive systems, their products are safer? Or does this mean maybe due to the widespread contaminants, its better to eat at the bottom of the food chain?
Happy to elaborate further if needed. Thanks.
On the Peat side, it seems his views are that animals provide a beneficial function in filtering out toxins and unwanted substances:
"The nutrients produced in the cow's rumen are selectively absorbed into the cow's bloodstream, where the liver can further filter out any toxins before the amino acids and other nutrients are absorbed by the udder to be synthesized into milk."- Milk in context: allergies, ecology, and some myths
As i understand it, drinking milk is preferable to vegetables (leaves and grass) because you are essentially leveraging of the filtration of the animals from which you are consuming their products.
However, there is a conflicting line of thought that would indicate the further up the food chain, the more toxins accumulate in the tissues of animals (particularly predators), implying that you should eat at the bottom of the fod chain (vegetables, or at least things like oysters. This theory seems particularly relevant for seafood, but i imagine it would also work as there would be contaminants in soil.
Can anyone offer an insight into this issue? is it that predators are all you should avoid, and since ruminants have significantly different digestive systems, their products are safer? Or does this mean maybe due to the widespread contaminants, its better to eat at the bottom of the food chain?
Happy to elaborate further if needed. Thanks.