• jerkface@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I mean meat is literally a leading cause of cancer. So is UV exposure. Those are both major factors that people absolutely should be paying attention to!

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      1 year ago

      That’s because they’re such an important and pleasure able part of life. Especially sunshine and UV exposure.

      There’s things you can do to reduce the risk, but most people would be worse off by trying to completely avoid them altogether.

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        1 year ago

        Well I mean that sounds nice and everything but depending on how you define “better”, it’s untrue that most people would be better off by not consuming meat. If by “better off”, for example, you mean living longer with less disease. If you mean dying young, then of course things change. It’s all subjective!

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          Not to mention the environmental improvements if most stopped eating meat. Those will contribute significantly to people being better off in addition to the direct effects. Eating meat at the current consumption rates in North America is largely an artifact of artificially low prices, driven by the advent of factory farming and bad labor practices. Not some pursuit of incredible pleasure from eating meat. It can’t be, given the quality of a lot of the consumed meat is pretty substandard. I’m saying this as a meat eater.