Is pork healthy, or in other words, should I eat pork? According to the Time, 3/5 experts say yes—but with a lot of caveats.
"...Nutrition, it turns out, is the easy part. A lean cut like pork tenderloin or center cut pork chop is a good choice for your health, says Kate Patton, registered dietitian with Cleveland Clinic’s Heart and Vascular Institute. “Pork tenderloin is actually as lean as chicken breast,” she says. It’s also an excellent choice for protein, says Kristi King, senior clinical dietitian at Texas Children’s Hospital..."
"...But there’s more to our food than just its nutritional value, says David Katz, MD, director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center. “Pigs are smarter than the family dog,” he says, adding that they endure a great deal of abuse when raised for food on factory farms. “I am not sure how much sense it makes for one kind of fellow mammal to be adopted into our families, and another, slightly smarter one to be on our dinner plates,” he says...."
"...You can eat pork, says Urvashi Rangan, director of consumer safety and sustainability at Consumer Reports. But be aware that the investigation found some antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria on the pork it studied. “These bacteria were resistant to antibiotics, which lessens the effectiveness of these drugs for all of us,” says Rangan. “Conventional pork can be fed antibiotics and other drugs daily, live indoors in unhygienic, confined conditions, and often have their tails docked,” Rangan says..."
So what’s the bottom line on swine?
"...Barry Estabrook was so fascinated by pork and pigs that he wrote a book about them: the just-released Pig Tales: An Omnivore’s Quest for Sustainable Meat. “The conclusion I arrived at after researching...that pork is either the worst meat you can eat from pretty much any perspective—environmental, animal rights, gastronomic—or the very best..."
"...Nutrition, it turns out, is the easy part. A lean cut like pork tenderloin or center cut pork chop is a good choice for your health, says Kate Patton, registered dietitian with Cleveland Clinic’s Heart and Vascular Institute. “Pork tenderloin is actually as lean as chicken breast,” she says. It’s also an excellent choice for protein, says Kristi King, senior clinical dietitian at Texas Children’s Hospital..."
"...But there’s more to our food than just its nutritional value, says David Katz, MD, director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center. “Pigs are smarter than the family dog,” he says, adding that they endure a great deal of abuse when raised for food on factory farms. “I am not sure how much sense it makes for one kind of fellow mammal to be adopted into our families, and another, slightly smarter one to be on our dinner plates,” he says...."
"...You can eat pork, says Urvashi Rangan, director of consumer safety and sustainability at Consumer Reports. But be aware that the investigation found some antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria on the pork it studied. “These bacteria were resistant to antibiotics, which lessens the effectiveness of these drugs for all of us,” says Rangan. “Conventional pork can be fed antibiotics and other drugs daily, live indoors in unhygienic, confined conditions, and often have their tails docked,” Rangan says..."
So what’s the bottom line on swine?
"...Barry Estabrook was so fascinated by pork and pigs that he wrote a book about them: the just-released Pig Tales: An Omnivore’s Quest for Sustainable Meat. “The conclusion I arrived at after researching...that pork is either the worst meat you can eat from pretty much any perspective—environmental, animal rights, gastronomic—or the very best..."
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