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Red and processed meat

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LittleDrops · 07/10/2023 14:00

I have never liked red meat, but do eat poultry and occasional pork. Yet I grew up taking it for granted that some red meat was good for iron levels and energy, which I am sure, for some, it is.

What I am interested in is 'why' these meats are now found to cause various diseases, or at least make you more susceptible to them.
When you do a google search, asking WHY, there are few answers, only listing the problems it can cause (image attached to show what I mean).

What is the actual reason why? What is it doing to the body, and what elements of it are more risky (additives, lack of fibre?)??

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LittleDrops · 07/10/2023 14:03

And in the case of cancer, what is red meat actually doing to the body to facilitate that? Is it the way we now farm and consume it, as opposed to historically?
Is this new, or was it always a problem for the body?

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DatingDinosaur · 07/10/2023 14:41

Yes, and last year it was salt. The year before that it was eggs. Before that, chicken. The list goes on.

If you are to take the latest media hype to the letter of the law, nothing is good for you and everything MAY cause cancer, Alzheimer’s, depression, bone deformity, climate change, bad fashion choices, aging, relationship breakdowns. You name it, someone will blame it on food. Evil stuff. It should be banned.

Then there’s the superfoods that are good for you. Blueberries, nuts and seeds, seafood. These all improve everything from mental health to fertility to job interviews and even make you better at playing darts.

How the human race has lasted so long without being told what good for us to eat, I’ll never know.

If they just allowed animals to graze, in fields, like nature intended instead of pumping them full of antibiotics and growth/flavour enhancers, perhaps the meat wouldn’t be so carcinogenic. But no, there’s little profit to be made in that, no government subsidies.

There’s a big drive on at the moment to guilt trip everyone to become vegan so of course meat is evil and the stuff of nightmares.

Next year it will be BANANAS CAN KILL.

Not having a go at you OP. The media scaremongering just really gets my free range goat.

As my granny used to say; A little of what you fancy does you good and everything in moderation.

Unless it’s crack cocaine or somebody else’s husband, of course..

LittleDrops · 07/10/2023 17:47

Bananas were murdering us years ago! Grin

I don't know how we might reduce intensive farming considering the size of the human population. I think keeping food affordable is at the root of it, so unless a good amount of the population are financially secure, there's no hope. A lot of the world's ills would slowly heal if we could end poverty, but that's a whole new thread!

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LittleDrops · 07/10/2023 18:35

Thanks, will have a read!

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