> We evolved to eat and digest animal based foods.
I doubt we evolved to eat large quantities of (mostly low quality processed) meat two or three times a day though, that's a very very modern lifestyle.
I doubt we evolved to eat large quantities of (mostly low quality processed) meat two or three times a day though, that's a very very modern lifestyle.
It depends who you ask, but humans have been processing and cooking meat for probably half a million years.
Salted and preserved meats have been sound for a very long time as well.
The processed foods we eat today are probably far higher quality than anything our ancestors ate. I can only assume “quality” here to refer the safety, cleanliness, and purity of the food. I don’t know what else it could mean.
> I don’t know what else it could mean.
I guess thats the issue then. Preservatives, colorants, added sugars/salts, melting salts, texturants, fake cheeses, and all kind of additives, &c.
Do you ever wonder why more and more people develop food related addictions and health issues ? Why half of the US is obese ? Why diabetes is skyrocketing ?
https://www.advisory.com/en/daily-briefing/2019/01/03/banned...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/10/211014102038.h...
https://thecounter.org/bpi-pink-slime-ground-beef-usda-recla...
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/318630#refined-car...
Overeating is why people are obese, specifically overeating plant based foods. Diabetes isn’t caused by meat, it’s caused by sugar, derived from beets or sugar cane, both plants. I implore you to find me a person that is obese from eating nothing but meat, the same way you can find obese vegans. (It doesn't exist.)
If you care about people's heath, surely you'll tell them to eat more meat.
The US produces ~14B bushels of corn each year. That's about 1500lbs per man, woman and child. What did you do with your share of corn this year?
Corn won early and it won big, so everybody started figuring out what they could make with the cheap stuff. And it turns out, nearly everything.
Yeah of course, that's why I think the modern take on vegetarianism/veganism is bs, every trend is corrupted by consumerism and the easiest way to make a profit is selling processed food (mostly byproducts of other industries) with a "vegan" sticker on it
> specifically overeating plant based foods
Can't find anything about that, any sources ? I can find dozen of studies linking meat over consumption to obesity and health issues in general, a few linking plant based diets to lower risk of getting overweight/obese but none linking vegetarianism to obesity.
> Diabetes isn’t caused by meat, it’s caused by sugar
Oh don't worry, they also add sugar to meat based processed food, they add sugar to pretty much everything. Ah, and you're wrong:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14576980/
https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/95/3/752/4576709
> If you care about people's heath, surely you'll tell them to eat more meat.
I doubt it, the average american already it 120+kg of meat a year... and it's strongly associated to all kind of health issues already.
https://www.cancercouncil.com.au/1in3cancers/lifestyle-choic...
https://www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c.741627.de/publikationen/round...
Neither of them are all meat diets, you just posted articles less that state incorrectly that that eating too much plants and adding meat is proof that meat are the only reason they’re obese and diabetic.
These words are meaningless.
The beef from the farm across my parents' house is the same as an antibiotic fed beef from a large scale US exploitation shipped over the atlantic ?
A frozen burger patty vs a locally sourced beef piece minced by your local butcher ?
A bag of dehydrated potatoe crumbs vs home made mashed potatoes ?
An apple and a banana vs an industrial sugar and preservative ridden compote ?
I know removing or altering the meaning of words is a big trend these days but it seems dishonest to not see the difference here. I honestly think you'd have to be severely uneducated or straight up lying not to see it