The New York Times Opinion You Donât Want to Miss Dr. McDougall has spent his life writing and lecturing about the importance of a healthy diet and its effects on our health. For the past 15 years, he has worked tirelessly to educate the public on how we are destroying our planet by eating ourselves to death and contributing to the current climate crisis. Now, with COVID-19 upon us, Dr. McDougall continues to advocate one solution we can implement overnight: A Starch-Based Diet. On Thursday, May 21, 2020, The New York Times Opinion section published a thought provoking article by Jonathan Safran Foer, author of numerous books including Eating Animals and We Are the Weather, entitled âThe End of Meat Is Here.â The article discusses our relationship with meat from consumption to all other aspects that go into its production: the plight of slaughter houses and those who work in them, how meat production contributes to climate change, the effects of sick animals on humans as it pertains to infectious diseases, health and our wallets. Not only does the article go into depth about these issues, it also discusses viable solutions. |