> HackerNews is the last place I’d expect I know that HackerNews has a vegan/ vegetarian bias in the recent years if not all the way back to 2010[1], however f

> HackerNews is the last place I’d expect I know that HackerNews has a vegan/ vegetarian bias in the recent years if not all the way back to 2010[1], however fortunately that seems to be changing, as evidenced by the parent comment by QuantumAphid saying "Rice, lentils, beans, all are much less nutrient dense than most animal foods." still at the top of this thread. > a “zero carb” pseudoscience follower Laymen like you often use science and rhetoric to advance a dietary agenda. What's hilarious is that you are not actually interested in advancing scientific knowledge. Do you read studies in detail enough to critique them[2]? Find out its faults? Nope. Nevermind that calling me a "pseudoscience follower" amounts to personal attack, and is prohibited in Hacker News - but you have no idea what lead me to this way of eating. And why don't you take out your anonymous mask? > Your diet is accelerating your cancer risk. This is nothing but fear mongering. If meat is so carcinogenic, why was cancer so uncommon until the last century or so? We are not eating any more meat now than we did a hundred years ago, yet cancer incidence is skyrocketing. So, why do we believe that meat causes cancer? There have been numerous research studies claiming to tie red meat to cancer (particularly colon cancer), however, these were weak epidemiological studies, and are not representative of results in the field as a whole. The fact is that studies of meat and cancer yield very mixed results. Many studies show no connection at all between meat and cancer, and some studies even show a protective benefit. There is simply no solid scientific evidence to support the belief that red meat increases cancer risk. This did not stop the World Health Organization (WHO) from proclaiming to the planet in October 2015 that red and processed meats cause cancer. Unfortunately, the WHO report is all smoke and mirrors[3]. > Please be aware of that. I'm more than aware of people like with an anti-meat agenda arousing fear in public minds. It is no wonder that nutritional science is in the state that it currently is. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1932295 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1932295 [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/ScientificNutrition/comments/adfowt/how_not_to_die_by_dr_michael_greger_a_critical/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ScientificNutrition/comments/adfowt... [3] http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/meat-and-cancer/ http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/meat-and-cancer/