When it comes to heart disease, the evidence against animal
products has today become so convincing and so thorough that even many in the
livestock industry can see the handwriting on the wall. Dr. Peter R. Cheeke is
a professor of animal science at Oregon State University and serves on the
editorial boards of the Journal of Animal Science and Animal Feed
Science and Technology. In his widely used animal science textbook, he says,
"Many studies, involving hundreds of thousands of
people, have shown . . . a
positive relationship between coronary heart disease and serum (blood) cholesterol. The higher the serum
cholesterol, the higher the risk for coronary heart disease. Populations in which the average serum
cholesterol level is (low) . . . are those on the lower end of
the per capita meat consumption scale,
while those (with high cholesterol levels) are populations with high intakes of animal
products. . . . It's more
useful to the livestock industries
and animal scientists to come to grips with the demonstrated relationships among saturated fat and cholesterol
intakes and coronary heart disease,
than to claim that there is no relationship or that there's some sort of conspiracy against animal
products by the medical community."
(‘The Food Revolution: how your diet can help save your life and our world’, by
John Robbins)
