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PeterDonis
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stefan r said:It is quite clear that eating beef lowers your life expectancy.
Please give some specific references. My understanding is that studies in this area don't all show this result, plus they are almost all studies of eating meat from animals raised in the unhealthy ways I described earlier.
stefan r said:It is highly unlikely that red meat was a primary dietary source for evolving humans.
If your definition of "red meat" is beef, then yes, of course this is true, since most of human evolution took place before cattle were domesticated and raised for meat.
However, there is plenty of evidence that humans hunted big game and that the meat from that game was a significant food source for most of human evolution. See, for example, here:
https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/evidence-for-meat-eating-by-early-humans-103874273
stefan r said:There is no way you can have 10 billion people on Earth consuming free range beef as a major component of their diets.
This is probably true (and gets us back on the thread topic, which is good). Free range beef isn't a major component of the diet of most of Earth's people now.