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Since beginning this diet, to me its become very obvious about how much more meat I consume. As a former vegetarian, I still feel an ethical obligation to the animals I eat. I try to eat as organic as possible (cage-free, antibiotic free, etc.). I've kind of mandated a new 2/3rds rule to my diet, where 2/3rds of my plate is veggies/fruit. A lot of paleo recommendations are that we subsist on at least 1/2 protein. If I could get away with it I would subsist on a lot of veggies; however from my own personal experience, I would quickly get anemia (despite consuming a lot of iron from spinach). I have calculated how much protein, that I'd need to consume daily using this calculator it gave me just under 300 grams of protein (which for a body building website is obviously going to be higher than my needs). So using a reference I was able to calculate that I'd need about 2 lbs of lean chicken breast a day. I can think of this as the "upper bound", which I probably won't hit even on work-out days. After reading about "rabbit starvation" and noticing my hunger is much less these days, I don't think I'll consume more than 1 lb of lean meat per day.

To help ease myself on the ethics of being an omnivore, I'll try to consume kefir (buying when on sale in bulk) and experiment with lentils (which seem to be the lesser of evils, that are legumes). It might be that, it comes back and bites me in the ass (much like returning to non-organic milk did. and organic milk to a much lesser degree). Regardless, I've really come to enjoy both organic meats and lots of veggies in the last few months.