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The Whole9 Seafood Trifecta

Today, we’re going to cross-reference a vast number of resources to help you arrive at the best-of-the-best, our “Seafood Trifecta”: Seafood that is (a) healthy for you, the environment and the fish populations, (b) high in healthy Omega-3 fatty acids, and (c) low in mercury. [...]

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The Conscientious Omnivore: From the Sea

Making “good” seafood choices is perhaps one of the most complicated tasks for us Conscientious Omnivores. Most folks assume it’s as simple as Wild Caught = Good Choice, but we believe that is a dangerously simplistic view to take, and could prove detrimental to a variety of factors- the delicate marine ecosystem, the population of sea creatures, and your health, to name a few. [...]

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The Conscientious Omnivore: Eggs

Eggs are a staple in many of our refrigerators. They provide a complete, easily available protein source (you can buy eggs just about anywhere these days – even your local gas station), at a cost that most health-conscious families consider to be reasonable and affordable. But “cheap” eggs are not really cheap when you factor in all of the hidden costs to the environment, animal welfare, society and your health. [...]

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Science experiments

Just the other day, one of the local pediatricians was telling me he’s seeing all kinds of illnesses that he never used to see. Not only juvenile diabetes, but inflammatory and autoimmune diseases that a lot of the docs don’t even know what to call. [...]

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The conscientious omnivore

As we’ve got the “choices” part down, we’ve spent the last few months expanding on the concept of “eating healthy food.” The natural place for us to start was taking a good, hard look at our food quality – specifically, where our animal protein comes from. You are what you eat, quite literally, and we believe they health of the animals you eat impacts your own health in a far more direct manner than, say, the quality of your vegetables or fruits. [...]

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