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Re:'Serious errors' in research linking deaths to red meat by ravenstine on Monday September 05, 2022 @11:39AM (#32725517)
Not even just hundreds of thousands, but millions. At least 2.6 million, and possibly as far back as 4.5 million.

But yes, with the data being in favor of humans being meat eaters, absent any potential health consequences from such a diet (not that I personally believe there are), the science should be far more rigorous. Actually, much of it isn't science, because epidemiology is not a science any more than "computer science."

In case, if anyone here this wants some reading material, or to consider that the case against meat is anything but clear:

Behavioral Characteristics and Self-Reported Health Status among 2029 Adults Consuming a “Carnivore Diet”

https://academic.oup.com/cdn/article/5/12/nzab133/6415894

^^ To be clear, I consider this kind of research as dubious as similar studies both refuting carnivory or supporting plant-based diets. What it does do is counter the idea that humans aren't supposed to eat meat on the same level as the evidence used to support that claim.

Why Humans Eat Meat

https://www.history.com/news/why-humans-eat-meat

For 2 Million Years, Humans Ate Meat And Little Else

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-2-million-years-humans-ate...

Exceptionally high δ15N values in collagen single amino acids confirm Neandertals as high-trophic level carnivores

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6421459/

Stable isotope dietary analysis of the Tianyuan 1 early modern human

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2706269/

Evolutionary basis for the human diet: consequences for human health

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31733113/

Comparative Digestive Physiology

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4458075/

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Re:'Serious errors' in research linking deaths to red meat by ozim on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @07:48AM (#32735782)
Discussion is about red meat not just "meat".

I somehow don't believe people ate meat in quantities we do today. Though yea people ate meat.

I can go to supermarket and eat red meat/chicken every day of the week - to hunt large animal it could take couple days. Of course there was more animals to be hunted but it is not like humans ate chicken breast all time.

They ate all kind of crappy meat, legs, tendons whatever they could eat. Best meat like steak or chicken breast was special occasion. People invented stew so they could have meat in multiple days so you eat a little bit of meat everyday.

Nowadays it is like special occasion every day.

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