Associated positively, which argues against policies to make meat more expensive: 'Worldwide, bivariate correlation analyses revealed that meat intake is posit

Associated positively, which argues against policies to make meat more expensive: 'Worldwide, bivariate correlation analyses revealed that meat intake is positively correlated with life expectancies. This relationship remained significant when influences of caloric intake, urbanization, obesity, education and carbohydrate crops were statistically controlled. Stepwise linear regression selected meat intake, not carbohydrate crops, as one of the significant predictors of life expectancy. In contrast, carbohydrate crops showed weak and negative correlation with life expectancy.'