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almost always. isn’t that convenient? do you have any data to back this up?

average joe != nutritionally ignorant. You may understand a few things about nutrition, but if you don’t understand a lot of things you’re going to have a bad time being 100% vegan. If you eat meat and you stick to a diet of minimally processed meat + fruits/vegetables you’d be fine.

Is meat inflammatory and carcinogen? Here’s the thing: we’ve been eating meat since we turned homo sapiens sapiens. Is the meat or the way that it’s processed a problem? Can you put in the same bucket organic grass fed beef and mystery meat hotdogs?

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/114/1/175/6178922

Plant based and vegan eating are almost entirely the land of privileged people. I have never met someone who was a vegan and living on minimum wage, had a job that involved hard physical work or had a lot of responsibility/lacked free time and disposable income. Please prove me wrong and help me change my mind if it’s not the case and you have good examples/pointers.

> Plant based and vegan eating are almost entirely the land of privileged people.

You are making way too many wrong assumptions about why these people don't eat plant based diets. There's modern industrial society making meat cheap, ignorance about healthy diets, and the false impression that plant based diets are not cheap.

You can buy legumes, whole grains, and vegetables in bulk, which would give you a full nutritional profile, and there's no way this is diet would be too expensive for underprivileged.

> average joe != nutritionally ignorant

The CDC begs to differ: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.htm

normally I would just say: appeal to authority, but since it’s the CDC and they have royalty screwed up the pandemic response I’m gonna go the extra mile: “fuck the CDC”

Ok so CDC is lying about body weight stats, got it. No point in discussing with you further.

that was always an option to stop the discussion.

I mean CDC lied about COVID repeatedly and issued guidance that was disastrous. Remember the whole “you don’t need masks unless you’re a doctor” in the beginning? How about withholding critical information about spread? How about underreported numbers? CDC is at this point a clown gathering and have 0 credibility. 0

Arguing this topic is a waste of your time.

Eat delicious healthy meat, lift, and let these people enjoy their metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and dementia. It's not your problem.

i don’t know. i’m open to change my mind but i have not learned anything new unfinished.

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