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Everything I downvoted was because I genuinely do not think it's good. Like meat is not going to cure cancer.

I actually really like eating meat I just try to life a life that gives others room to enjoy this earth too without mutually destroying it.

Please tell me how I am the asshole :)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's not a troll, it's a earnest eating pattern. It has nothing to do with vegans, the entire world doesn't rotate around vegans. People can do things independently of what vegans do.

The Inuit didn't exist for thousands of years in the arctic circle eating only animals to spite vegans.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The Inuit didn’t exist for thousands of years in the arctic circle eating only animals to spite vegans.

Their population is sparse and they had absolutely no energy to spare to expand or rise up in the world, they were too busy with the incredible energy expenditure that is hunting. They didn't choose to do this as a success option, they just have no other option because nothing will grow in their environment, so it's hunt or starve.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

But they survived - With great health according to the reports of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhjalmur_Stefansson who observed the population pre-westernized.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

According to the methodologically worthless reports of one guy who died in the 60s, "i ate this and I'm feeling fine, trust me bro"

It took me all of 30 seconds in the linked wiki article to find this

"Arctic physiologist Kåre Rodahl has written that Stefansson's diet on his arctic explorations should not be confused with the Eskimo diet as the Eskimos in addition to meat and fat also "eat considerable quantities of entrails and plant food in the form of land plants and sea algae" and during the summer, marine algae makes up 50% of their vitamin C supply.[26]"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Any type of person that survives in a harsh environment where death is an ever-present outcome will generally be strong and healthy on an individual basis. It's natural selection. If they're not hardy, they don't survive, so the ones that are left are healthy.

I'm not saying that there's no way to eat exclusively meat and have it work out. I'm just saying that (a) you're choosing an example that doesn't apply all that well to making an argument about how to eat in the modern world (b) the industrially farmed meat that's available in the modern world, definitely in the US at least, is pure poison compared to what any ancient society you're studying was eating.

Every study in the modern world that I'm aware of has drawn conclusions of severe negative health consequences from eating too much of the type of meat that's available to us now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago
  1. Of course giving protein to Kenyan children is going to improve their performance at everything, that's not surprising to me. People need protein and if you're giving some of it to some of them who probably aren't getting plenty of it already, it'll help them. That doesn't directly have a bearing on whether a first-world adult choosing to consume only meat is going to improve anything for them.
  2. Correlation is not causation, both meat consumption and overall life expectancy are going to be highly correlated with societal wealth. That's not surprising to me, it doesn't directly have a bearing on whether a first-world adult choosing to consume only meat is going to improve anything for them.
  3. That's a social media survey of people self-reporting consuming a carnivore diet and asking them to self-report their health level. It's not surprising to me that they self-report that the carnivore diet is having good effects for them.
  4. Correlation is not causation.

On average, participants who reported consuming meat regularly (three or more times per week) had more adverse health behaviours and characteristics than participants who consumed meat less regularly, and most of the positive associations observed for meat consumption and health risks were substantially attenuated after adjustment for body mass index (BMI). In multi-variable adjusted (including BMI) Cox regression models corrected for multiple testing, higher consumption of unprocessed red and processed meat combined was associated with higher risks of ischaemic heart disease (hazard ratio (HRs) per 70 g/day higher intake 1.15, 95% confidence intervals (CIs) 1.07–1.23), pneumonia (1.31, 1.18–1.44), diverticular disease (1.19, 1.11–1.28), colon polyps (1.10, 1.06–1.15), and diabetes (1.30, 1.20–1.42); results were similar for unprocessed red meat and processed meat intakes separately. Higher consumption of unprocessed red meat alone was associated with a lower risk of iron deficiency anaemia (IDA: HR per 50 g/day higher intake 0.80, 95% CIs 0.72–0.90). Higher poultry meat intake was associated with higher risks of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (HR per 30 g/day higher intake 1.17, 95% CIs 1.09–1.26), gastritis and duodenitis (1.12, 1.05–1.18), diverticular disease (1.10, 1.04–1.17), gallbladder disease (1.11, 1.04–1.19), and diabetes (1.14, 1.07–1.21), and a lower IDA risk (0.83, 0.76–0.90).

https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-021-01922-9

That's just the first random thing I found. Again, I am sure that a lot of that has to do with the low quality of the meat available in modern factory-farm-driven societies. I'm just saying that if you're advocating for people eating meat, and they live in that type of society, they're going to be fucking themselves up by eating lots of the type of meat that is available to them in that society.