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My father has worked in the meat industry his entire life and said that over the decades, he was shocked how unnaturally cheap meat has become. I'm in no way a
by fleddr 4y ago
My father has worked in the meat industry his entire life and said that over the decades, he was shocked how unnaturally cheap meat has become.
I'm in no way anti-meat, but a lot of people have normalized eating a huge amount of meat per day at ultra low cost, and internalized this as some basic right. Natural consumption of meat is to eat meat sporadically, not 3 times per day.
I'm not questioning whether one likes meat, I do too. I'm saying you don't need it in these amounts nor should you expect it to be this cheap forever.
- Dylan16807 4y agoWhat's a natural amount? I'm imagining a farm household hundreds of years ago, growing their own crops and having a herd of 4 cows, killing one or two a year for lots and lots of meat. Google says hunter-gatherers got most of their food from meat. And are crops not unnaturally cheap with modern mechanized farms?
- nephanth 4y agoI'd say a good definition for a "natural amount" is the average amount you get in a hunter-gatherer setting. That's what most of our evolution has prepared us for. Not judging on the value of thaat diet though. "Natural" doesn't necessarily mean "good"
- kortilla 4y ago> Natural consumption of meat is to eat meat sporadically, not 3 times per day. This is just an appeal to the way things were 70 years ago in the US. Much further back you had Native Americans absolutely eating tons of bison meat in the western US. Other tribes easily got fish for every meal. Others have been heavily vegetarian. There is no “natural consumption of meat”.
- ww-picard-do 4y ago> There is no “natural consumption of meat”. Yes. As you point out the consumption of meat varies greatly across cultures.
- fleddr 4y agoNatural and cultural are not the same thing. Culture is made up, nature is not. Overconsumption of meat can lead to bodily issues as does a lack of particular plant foods. Particular meats are processed/digested in different ways, and have different pros and cons on what it does to your body and health. So there very much is a "natural" way to consume meat that is most compatible with the capabilities and constraints of our body. What is recommended/natural is an entirely different concept from what people actually do, which was entirely my point.