Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from food production

Re:Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from... by RspecMAuthortah on Monday September 13, 2021 @05:24PM (#28517075)

For me at least, since switching to a complete meat based diet I have had a lot of my digestive issues along with host of other problems (better sleep for example but that could be because I don't have to wake up middle of the night from the esophageal pain) completely gone. I also feel a lot better mental health wise(again could be because I have better sleep). I understand I might be an anecdote.

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Re:Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from... by r00fus on Monday September 13, 2021 @05:29PM (#28517115)

Often, getting a specialized diet prevents you from eating over-processed foods, which would cut down on potential problems your body may have with them.

It's the same with a low-meat diet since so many restaurants don't offer food without meat - you end up not eating out as much or selecting healthier items.

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Re:Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from... by pigeonhole123 on Monday September 13, 2021 @06:15PM (#28517602)

Same here. I never tolerated legumes well, and cutting all plants and especially ones containing fiber cured my IBS and got rid of my chronic inflammation. For anyone curious Paul Mason has a few talks about fiber.

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Re:Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from... by albertgoeswoof on Monday September 13, 2021 @05:49PM (#28517321)

A complete meat diet?

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Re:Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from... by dwohnitmok on Monday September 13, 2021 @06:02PM (#28517464)

It happens. E.g. the Inuit traditional diet is effectively entirely meat/animal products. Non-animal products make up a tiny sliver of the traditional diet.

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Re:Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from... by spicymaki on Monday September 13, 2021 @06:20PM (#28517670)

Yeah no thanks, the Inuit lifestyle does not seem healthy. The Inuit currently have lifespans that are about 13 years less than the average Canadian lifespan. Even that is an improvement of 29 years from the 1940s. [0]

[0] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/82-003-x/2008001/article...

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Re:Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from... by dwohnitmok on Monday September 13, 2021 @07:04PM (#28518047)

I have no particular take on the health of the Inuit diet; I bring it up mainly to indicate that there are people who do go essentially their whole lives on just a meat diet.

However your statistics there have way too many confounding factors to attribute anything substantial to the native diet. Infant mortality rates historically and remain (comparatively) very high. Alcoholism is rampant among Canadian indigenous people. Even among peoples who have similar diets such as e.g. Metis, Inuit and First Nations peoples, life expectancy is significantly different (this is before even getting into a comparison with other meat-eating cultures in the world).

There is virtually no signal here to determine the healthiness of an Inuit-style diet either way.

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Re:Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from... by jimnotgym on Monday September 13, 2021 @06:08PM (#28517527)

Can you tell us more? You went 100% meat and your digestive system for better? What is an average meal for you?

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Re:Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from... by nicoburns on Monday September 13, 2021 @05:37PM (#28517195)

What were you eating before?

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