A Comparison of Food Philosophies

Competing philosophies have made the food world so crazy, that it's hard to know any more what is actually good to eat. Some groups believe that grains are bad, others that meat is unethical or unhealthy. Still others see no harm in any of our modern foods and consume them complacently while wondering how they got stuck with the lousy genes responsible for their chronic illnesses.

At Food Pillars, we suggest that it's not so much what foods we are eating as how we are eating them. To answer if an individual should be drinking milk, we must first ask, how has the milk been obtained? Is it from grass-fed or corn-fed cattle? Has it been pasteurized or does it remain raw? Is it homogenized? Is it cultured?

The following table examines the contrasts between four popular food movements. Food Pillars supports the traditional mind-set.