Self-important and pompous Jordon Peterson, hater of the compassionate, gets in a muddle
The papers he quotes on diet and GHGs say the opposite of what he says they do
Jp splits out ‘compassionate’ like it’s a perjorative. What are you saying JP, that it’s better not to care and to be a heartless git like you?
And on the science front you’re actually talking BS out of your constipated arse.
Let’s look at some of your points;
Animal products are only more affordable compared to plant foods due to intensive/factory farming (thanks JP) and because of the huge government subsidies and kick backs in the US, Canada, Uk and EU at the tax payers expense.
The guidelines of the food pyramid have not been adhered to by most people so it’s pointless to point to them as a cause of obesity. They are formulated by scientists nor ‘marketers’. The strongest lobbyists are from the animal agriculture.
Carbs aren’t the cause of obesity as refined sugars and whole grains must be separated out in their effects, which you don’t do. The causes of obesity are increasing sedentary lifestyles and the rise of junk food, high in refined sugar, salt as well as fat and obesogenic chemicals bioaccumulated in animal products. Westerners never have had and still don’t have a low fat diet. They may not have previously been so obese but eating lard and dying younger was not healthy or great either.
The paper you go on about allegedly showing an increase in stroke risk in vegans compared to omnivores is probably the EPIC Oxford study which looked at a group of very healthy omnivores and a group of vegans, who may well have been eating junk food and not taking B12. As we don’t know what anyone was actually eating nothing can be drawn from this study. Thought we do know that the only diet shown to reverse and prevent heart disease, the number one killer in the West, remains a whole food plant based diet.
OMG and the paper you site on carbon emissions from animal vs plants used a model where animals were removed from the system entirely but the tonnes of corn and soy grown to feed them were still produced even though it wasn’t needed! Even in this mad scenario GHGs were reduced.
Your ‘scientific; claims debunked here
and here
PS the PURE (or pure garbage) study you quote doesn’t show that low fat is associated with poor health and higher risk of stroke, it shows that being poor, having poorly ventilated cooking facilities and having a low fruit, veg and legume diet is associated with being unhealthy. Escaping poverty and increasing fruit and veg consumption increases health not increasing fat consumption.
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"The only diet shown to reverse and prevent heart disease, the number one killer in the West, remains a whole food plant based diet." Why is it so difficult for people to accept the veracity of this statement? There are mountains of evidence that attest to this fact. The last three years has shown us how explicit personal prejudicial bias rules almost all of society and what's called 'science.' The vast majority of people, at every level, truly believe what they want to believe regardless of overwhelming evidence, facts and the provable truths.
To your point on how health is impacted by economic warfare, some of the biggest diabetics were originally native americans, whose condition was blamed on them eating fry bread. Even after sugar consumption did not rise at all between 1922-1984, rates of diabetes skyrocketed tenfold:
https://romanshapoval.substack.com/p/how-diabetes-is-an-electrical-illness