Yes, that's something I should mention next time I update rawpaleodiet.com(the reference re cooking destroying the environment via chopping down ancient forests for wood etc.)
Yes, Tyler, i think it may be helpful. Often "environmentalists" show a tendency to blame substantial meat or animal product eaters, as we are, for their "carbon footprint" or similar environmental impacts and promote unhealthy necessarily cooked plant based diets as being the more sustainable diets.
Facing such people, it is important for us to be able to give them some "food for thought" and explain them that their position is probably nonsense and they might well be quite mistaken because of:
-the cooking issue
-the fact that raising grassfed cattle needs very little or no fossil fuel input and no pesticides and is the most environmentally friendly way to get a high quality food, one can think of, even on mountainous or wet land inappropriate for agriculture.
- the fact that grain production needs very large fossil fuel input, pesticides, fertilizers, water etc and is the least environmentally friendly way to get a low quality unhealthy food, one can think of, and is restricted to cultivable land.
- curing illness or just to care for the sick has also a strong environmental impact
to name just a few points, i can think of.