I have been defending red meat in the diet, since it is a major source of protein and nutrition, and of course, the meat industry is a major part of the farming industry. Meat is now under attack by the globalist elites on alleged carbon dioxide emission grounds, wrongly, we argue. But before that there was a health critique of meat, blaming meat for heart disease, stroke and cancer. It turns out that most of the scientific studies used to push this ideology, were observational studies, where the results could be due to other intervening factors acting. Perhaps meat eaters have less vegetables or smoke more? There are numerous factors that need to be controlled. As well, the type of meat is important, whether it has high degrees of preservatives, such a processed meat, or is it organic grass-fed lean juicy meat? According to scientists at scientists at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), “We found weak evidence of association between unprocessed red meat consumption and colorectal cancer, breast cancer, type 2 diabetes and ischemic heart disease. Moreover, we found no evidence of an association between unprocessed red meat and ischemic stroke or haemorrhagic stroke.”
If this is right, then it looks like “meat is back on the menu, boys”!