S2E15: Robb Wolf - Is Meat Really Bad for Our Health and the Environment?

Robb Wolf is a former research biochemist, a two-time New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author, and he’s helped transform the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around the world through his Healthy Rebellion community, his podcast, books, and seminars.

Robb has also been a review editor for the Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism and a consultant for the Naval Special Warfare Resiliency program. He also serves on the board of Directors/Advisors for Specialty Health Inc., The Chickasaw Nation’s “Unconquered Life” initiative, and a number of innovative startups with a focus on health and sustainability.

In this episode, Robb unpacks our food system and looks at it from an ethical, health, and environmental perspective to see if raising animals or growing plants for consumption is better for our health and our future.

Robb also shares the shocking food that’s really depleting our water supply, how we can’t raise humans without meat, how we’re destroying our top soil and what needs to be done about it, his experience going on Joe Rogan’s podcast, and so much more.

Here’s a peek at some of the topics Robb and Chris Irvin, The Ketologist, cover:

00:00 Introduction to the Keto Answers podcast

00:29 Introduction to this episode’s guest Robb Wolf 

04:37 Robb’s health journey and how he went from being a research biochemist to studying animal agriculture

18:39 How the documentary Social Dilemma opened up Robb’s eyes even more to the problems social media creates and what he does about it

29:42 What are the real environmental issues that make people say meat is bad and we shouldn’t eat it?

33:25 How animal husbandry doesn’t deplete our water supply and what’s doing so at alarming rates 

35:34 What about the methane emissions that come from animal husbandry? Isn’t that bad for our environment?

39:43 What our current agricultural approach gets wrong, how it impacts our environment, and what can be done about it

40:38 How we’re destroying our top soil at a remarkable rate, why this is a huge problem, and how we can fix it

46:19 What about the ethics side of the equation? How can you justify killing animals for food?

50:45 What a fascinating study in Sweden showed us about vegan diets

1:01:39 Robb’s experience on Joe Rogan’s podcast

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Robb Wolf’s website

Robb Wolf’s Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube channel

Robb’s Substack 

Robb’s book, Sacred Cow

Robb’s documentary, Sacred Cow

Robb’s other books, Wired to Eat, The Paleo Solution, and more

Robb’s podcast The Healthy Rebellion Radio

Robb’s electrolyte company LMNT

Robb’s episode on The Joe Rogan Experience