Hot dogs, bacon and other processed meats cause cancer, WHO declares

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captain carot said:
Most 'westernized' people eat to much meat. And to much sugar...

So there's that.

On the other hand, is eating meat unhealthy? Well, Inuit originally ate tons of meat, actually raw meat. And they where pretty healthy. There's tons of vitamins and stuff in raw meat. And they ate tons of fat. Low carb-no sugar though.

So maybe it's not only what we eat but how we eat it.

Then there's stuff like the ecological footprint.
Cows eating grass thus stimulating grassgrowth and especially rootgrowth>good. Helps keep CO² in the ground (basically the roots), nice for the landscape blabla...
Cows eating soy raised on former rainforest>baaaaaaaaaaaaaaad

The former one makes large scale mass production a little bit more difficult and expensicve. So you'd probably not be getting your 1 pound of something for less than a $/€. Might be having a happy liffe though.

Now for the vegans:
Frugans live unhealthy. And that bastards only eat plant embryos, disgusting, not? ^^
Vegans need alternative products. Some are basically known to be unhealthy and usually not produced in an ecological way.

So about the ultimately superior ethics of black/white views of the world veggies, it's actually 100% BS. Sorry to say that.
On the other side of the fence, the i wanna eat my ton of meat fraction gets an F-grade too.

Taking a global look, there's 7 billion people on this dirt ball. Eating a little less meat would mean there's more corn, soy and so on for people that actually need it. At least as long as that stuff doesn't somehow get in our fuel tanks. Not even talking about all the food we throw away.

Forgot something? Ah, yes. Guess i'm in the matrix, i've seen that discussion before, over and over again.

Reason why there isn't more corn, soy and so on for people who need it is because the people who need it is people who don't have money to pay for it. There's huge overproduction of food, and still people die in hunger. Humanitarian aid is just dumping (some of) the huge surplus somewhere anyway, and in part works as a way to make sure things aren't getting any better. More free food west keeps dumping, the harder it is for the local farmers to compete and the cheaper Monsanto et al is able to buy that is sold with a good margin in the west.