I'm vegan but I'd never make stuff up. Notion of food being unhealthy or healthy is borderline orthorexic. Saying that red meat is unhealthy is vague. There's no concept in science that categorizes food as either healthy or unhealthy. There has been no strong evidence that diets containing meat are unhealthy.
As much as I'd like everyone to severely decrease their meat consumption and eventually stop using all animal products I won't scare them with shaky facts.
Would USA population benefit from eating less food, definitely. Are epidemiological studies strong enough evidence for diet related health benefits? No.
HN is full of orthorexic hivemind demonizing ingredients like sugar, cholesterol, fat, meat or whatever.
There are plenty of valid, rational reasons to stop eating meat. If one is in good health then health is not a valid reason.
I don't either, perhaps I spoke too broadly but red meat is generally agreed to be bad for someone, especially in the quantities normally eaten in the western world. I really should have specified "most American's can improve their health by eating less red meat."
We shouldn't generally speak in absolutes, I agree. But what I was contending was simple, staying away from lab and normal animal flesh would be good in general for the US population.
That's not to say you can't eat red meat and be healthy if you do it in moderation. There's countless ways to achieve a healthy diet with h vegan and non vegan options.
People are absolutely right to doubt the legitmacy of nutrition research in 2016, and the replication crisis and obesity crisis, and failure of experts just adds fuel to the fire.
