Butter consumption may be one reason the All Blacks rugby team, from a country of only four million people, continues to dominate in international competition. Recently the All Blacks played the American Eagles in Chicago and thrashed them seventy-four to six. The New Zealand diet of grass-fed butter, beef, lamb and organ meats, along with the best shellfish in the world, is surely a recipe for producing great athletes.\
This article appeared in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts, the quarterly journal of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Winter 2014
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Michael says
I realise this is a little tongue-in-cheek, but of course the point is that there are many codes of football and most Americans, (and most people in other countries) play a different one.
The All Blacks have a very fine record – one of the finest: though the Springboks (the South African team) are about on a par – but then England, France and Ireland consistently manage to field very fine rugby teams, although Association Football ( ‘soccer in old English Public School slang, a term also used in the U.S.) draws off very many people who would otherwise play Rugby Football (rugger), the former being the dominant code played in those countries. Australia fields good rugby sides, too, although there is also the competition of Australian Rules Football there.