I remember reading a comment on the carnivore :reddit-logo: where somebody said they believed that a carnivore diet was better for their own health, better for the environment, and led to fewer animals dying.
Yup, very funny when people try to justify meat by going, "But what about all the bugs, rodents, etc that die during farming?" Like motherfucker, you're suggesting we should kill all of those and bigger animals also. It's not one or the other. It's one or both.
In the case of beef production, it requires like 30x the farmland as just crops for human consumption when you factor in feed crop, so it's not even close.
On the health side, I think some people probably do see some short-term benefit from a carnivore diet because it's essentially a very strict elimination diet, so if they have something in their regular diet that causes them irritation (which is pretty common), there's a good chance it'll be eliminated. Plus some amount of placebo effect.
It's not really a good justification because there's no reason your elimination diet should be meat only. Plus when you do an elimination diet the idea is to then gradually reintroduce foods to discover which ones are causing irritation. So it's more like they're misattributing the benefit of cutting out some specific food that they have a reaction to
I remember reading a comment on the carnivore :reddit-logo: where somebody said they believed that a carnivore diet was better for their own health, better for the environment, and led to fewer animals dying.
No idea what their rationale was
if you count all the bugs that die when harvesting crops it is more than the cows that die. i am very smart.
Cows eat crops...
Yup, very funny when people try to justify meat by going, "But what about all the bugs, rodents, etc that die during farming?" Like motherfucker, you're suggesting we should kill all of those and bigger animals also. It's not one or the other. It's one or both.
In the case of beef production, it requires like 30x the farmland as just crops for human consumption when you factor in feed crop, so it's not even close.
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On the health side, I think some people probably do see some short-term benefit from a carnivore diet because it's essentially a very strict elimination diet, so if they have something in their regular diet that causes them irritation (which is pretty common), there's a good chance it'll be eliminated. Plus some amount of placebo effect.
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It's not really a good justification because there's no reason your elimination diet should be meat only. Plus when you do an elimination diet the idea is to then gradually reintroduce foods to discover which ones are causing irritation. So it's more like they're misattributing the benefit of cutting out some specific food that they have a reaction to
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Yeah, they're not doing it deliberately
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