Comment on Vegan dies from starvation
chetradley@lemm.ee 1 year agoThe question was never “is meat healthy?” It’s “is eating animal products necessary for human health?” as you originally claimed. Are you still taking the position that animal products are inherently necessary for human health?
masterofballs@exploding-heads.com 1 year ago
Yes and until I see a multi-generational family all fed Vegan from birth till pregnancy and conception I’ll maintain that position. Or see any reasonal percentage of healthy athletes using a vegan diet from before their athletic career started well into the height of their athletic career.
Meat is absolutely required for human healthy. You can service on some really shitty food for a long time but any vegan would be healthier if they included animal foods 100%.
chetradley@lemm.ee 1 year ago
So, instead of using data to decide your position, you decide your position ahead of time and ignore any information to the contrary that isn’t a decades long study? I would think the more reasonable position for you to take would be that you don’t know if eating animal products are necessary for long-term multigenerational health outcomes.
masterofballs@exploding-heads.com 1 year ago
Oh there is plenty of data. Just look at life expectancy. Look at the highest meat consumption per person vs the lowest. India has a shit life expectancy and eats very little meat. Japan and hongkong have very high meat consumption and live very long.
chetradley@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You’re assuming correlation implies causation. There’s also a direct correlation between life expectancy and per capita wealth, which you’re conveniently ignoring. Correcting for external factors, there’s been an association between vegetarian/vegan diets and lower prevalence of disease and obesity.
Adventist study findings show inverse correlation between meat consumption and certain health risk factors.
Blue zones with the highest life expectancy all share very low meat consumption (less than 5 servings per month)..