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> they aren’t worse lifespans than other populations with similar economic backgrounds Even if this is true, it’s tremendously misleading because (globally) ve
by wyager 5y ago
> they aren’t worse lifespans than other populations with similar economic backgrounds
Even if this is true, it’s tremendously misleading because (globally) vegetarian populations tend to be quite poor.
- ben_w 5y agoTo the extent that’s true, it also demonstrates the false causality in your own claim: poverty, not the absence of meat per se, is the cause of all the things you’re blaming vegetarian diets for.
- wyager 5y agoObviously the people I’m comparing against each other are in the same social-economic stratum. Even after conditioning for other factors, the costs of bad (vegetable-based) diets are significant. And, of course, there is a bidirectional causality with poor people getting bad food, which stunts their development, which keeps them poor.