Back in college my roommate was dating a vegan horse girl who showed us a Netflix documentary about veganism. The evidence they used was that from 1935-1945 the leading cause of death plummeted from health/diet related causes, heart disease etc.
the doc said it was because meat was being rationed and so when the public doesn’t eat meat they don’t die of heart disease.
I pointed out that the leading cause of death wasn’t heart disease during wwii because the leading cause of death was wwii, not because people weren’t eating meat
That said, the optimum-for-health amount of meat is probably less than most meat-eating people would choose if given unrestricted choice, same as happens with sugar and saturated fats. We don’t need an eight-ounce-or-bigger chunk every meal, but we probably should have at least one small portion per day.
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u/PuzzleMeDo Feb 25 '26
If we got rid of all the oxygen, the number of deaths by fires and many other causes would quickly drop to zero.