Logical Activism

1. Agricultural subsidies (especially in the rich world) are a horrible distortion of markets that are particularly damaging to developing economies due to the fact that agricultural surpluses are often the first step out of poverty.

2.  Consumption of grains is not congruent with the biology of the digestive system.  In the grand scheme of our evolutionary past, including grains in our diet is but a modern blip and, along with sugar and other high glycemic foods, is responsible for increasing insulin resistance (and body fat percentages).  They did allow for many modern advances achieved through food surpluses and higher living densities, but this does not negate the now known effect they have on our health.

3.  The argument that we should eat less meat and more grains because we have to feed our animals x amount of grain to get y amount of meat, is technically true but besides the point.  Grains have no business being in our food chain period.  We evolved on the grasslands of Africa and Eurasia eating large game animals which eat green stuff (grass).  Cows, pigs, and even chickens, do not naturally eat grains.

4.  You can throw out most of the studies that correlate meat consumption with ill health effects.  Were the animals fed grains?