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Originally Posted by Azure
Why do you need to reduce your meat intake?
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There has been a lot of research done and studies published that show why our North American diet of extreme meat intake is not healthy. As with most traditional diets across the globe, meat is not eaten as the main course everyday of the week, but instead used as a side and for flavoring. When we eat it, we usually eat it at the expense of other food groups. That's the major issue, in my mind.
I am sure you're already familiar with heart disease risks, obesity levels, and cancer (gastrointestinal especially) rates in North American, or at least realize they're at far higher levels than most other areas of the world. A lot of it has to do with our massive North American style meat industry, where we feed animals extremely unhealthy diets, inject them full of extremely unhealthy chemicals, subject them to extremely unhealthy living standards, and then expect the meat to be healthy for us to digest.
So, while meat itself, in its essence, might not be any worse for you than other food types, it is when eaten in large amounts like we tend to do over here every day. That's largely because of how we produce our meat, and what we eat less of because of it. Scale it to a more reasonable level while eating more of the things we tend to ignore because of it, (fish, especially oily, and a wide variety of vegetables/fruits) and you'll likely feel much healthier.