You are what you eat eats

You know the saying, "you are what you eat?" Well, apparently you can take this saying a step further. Because you're really what you eat eats.

Based on what I read in The Omnivore's Dilemma last night, it seems that what the plants and animals you eat have eaten is equally (if not more) important than what kind of plant or animal they are (i.e. is a grass-fed cow better for you than a corn-fed salmon? Maybe!). I'm so upset that it has taken me 27 years to find this out!

If you don't know what I'm talking about, here is a little synopsis...

1. Plants. If they're "eating" natural sunlight, the nutrients from natural soil, and drinking rain water, you get all of the natural nutrients that plants (fruits, veggies, seeds, nuts) were best suited to produce from nature. On the other hand, if plants are ingesting artificial light, pesticides, and human-purified water they don't develop natural nutrients and defenses like they were meant to. You're essentially eating the lowest common denominator here. In other words, which sounds better: sunlight, organic soil, and rain water -or- fluorescent light, pesticide-filled soil, and stripped down water?

2. Animals. Corn-fed salmon? Grain-fed cows? Not good. For them or for us. Salmon are designed to eat what is in the water. Cows are designed to eat grass. And when they eat what they're designed to eat, their bodies function better. A better functioning body means better, more nutritious, dinner for you and I.

So in case you can't tell, right now I am on a food quality kick. Want to make sure the Paleo Diet I'm getting is the best it can be!
-Andi