Here are some true statements:
1. Meat has been a part of the human diet since the beginning of recorded history.
2. People are eating exponentially more meat today than at any time in human history.
3. Since this trend started, cancer, diabetes, and heart diseases rates have also risen exponentially. Diseases that were once rare are now common.
4. Populations that have not joined the meat-orgy bandwagon have not experienced these epidemics.
So what about meat?
Is it good for you? Is it bad for you?
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While there is probably some truth to what they are saying, their analysis is also misleading. For example they state that “…cancer, diabetes, and heart diseases rates have also risen exponentially. Diseases that were once rare are now common…” while failing to acknowledge that we live much longer than our ancestors did. Some diseases, like cancer and heart disease, are actually bodily malfunctions that take decades to develop as damage to the body accumulates, and most of our ancestors simply did not live long enough for these problems to develop — regardless of the cause.