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What many people don’t do or know is that you don’t have to eat meat everyday. In fact once or twice a week is more than enough, unless you have a super strenuo
by prox 4y ago
What many people don’t do or know is that you don’t have to eat meat everyday. In fact once or twice a week is more than enough, unless you have a super strenuous physical job.
That’s the best of both worlds without going all polarized for/against meat.
Getting good meat sources (aka not from Brazil for instance) is a great second choice one can consciously make.
- dixie_land 4y agowhat's wrong with Brazil
- h0l0cube 4y agoCattle (and crop production for cattle feed) in Brazil is decimating the Amazon
- prox 4y agoBrazil is the world largest exporter of beef (mostly to the US) and it costs huge swathes of land, killing the rainforest plus more methane in the atmosphere. So it’s a double whammy when it comes to environmental costs. And lets not start talking about the main company behind it, feel free to research that. https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2019/july/brazil-once-again-becomes-the-world-s-largest-beef-exporter/ https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2019/july/brazil-once-a...
- mc32 4y agoThe largest importers of Brazilian beef are China and Hong Kong, with South Africa and the Middle East taking up the rearguard, not the USA. Surprisingly the second largest exporter of beef is India.
- phunkay 4y agoIt is prohibited to export beef from India at all [1]. Where did you learn that they are the second largest exporter? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_slaughter_in_India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_slaughter_in_India
- mc32 4y agoAccording to the USDA: https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2019/july/brazil-once-again-becomes-the-world-s-largest-beef-exporter/ https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2019/july/brazil-once-a...
- dmarble 4y agoIndia's beef exports are primarily buffalo meat ("carabeef"), not cow meat. In addition, there are states in India where slaughtering cows is permitted.
- Iwan-Zotow 4y agowater buffalos
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- TurkishPoptart 4y agoIt costs all of that to make coca-cola, too. Can we get rid of soda before we get rid of our meat, please? I'm not going to eat bugs, but you can go right ahead.
- hardolaf 4y agoThe advice that I've gotten from my doctor is five to seven portions of meat at spread over at least two days per week. So yes, you don't need to eat it every day, but you still need to eat a good amount. And it may just be simpler to eat 3 to 4 ounces of chicken each day with something else than to track how often you're eating 2-3x that much over two days in the week.
- prox 4y agoI am not going to argue with what a doctor advises you, but I am going to say it must be personal. Lots of people live their whole lives without eating meat and do fine. Anyway, the take away is that a lot less is probably fine for you if you are the typical meat eater 7x a week.
- netmonk 4y agoThey do fine ? More than Half american is diabetic... 93% of US citizen has metabolic disorder, ...40% of western world is diabetic But they do fine. :)
- mmontagna9 4y agoWhere are you getting your numbers?!
- netmonk 4y agohttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0735109722049944?via%3Dihub https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S07351...
- speakfreely 4y agoDid you ask your doctor what he's basing this on? I'd like to read more.
- jaclaz 4y agoAs a matter of fact the "original" Mediterranean diet (i.e. what people actually ate in countries like Italy or Greece) rarely included meat more than once or twice per week (but not being actualy vegetarian or vegan it did include fish, eggs, cheese).