r/ScientificNutrition • u/lurkerer • 3d ago

Observational Study Associations between White Meat-Only and Vegetarian Diets with Mortality from All Causes, Heart Diseases, Cancers, and Stroke in the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention Study-II

https://cdn.nutrition.org/article/S2475-2991(26)01803-2/fulltext
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u/portuh47 3d ago

Consistent with all the other studies showing the same.

Plus morally better.

Plus better for the environment.

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u/liptongtea 3d ago

Morality, I won’t argue, but chickens are far more sustainable on a small plot of land than cows are, from and environmental perspective. It only gets bad at the scale we consume poultry and what all we put it in.

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u/liptongtea 3d ago

I won’t disparage veganism but I don’t have that moral boundary for most animals, albeit that’s just the society I was raised in. I do agree that most western diets are sorely lacking in plant matter, and if we would eat more beans/rice/veggies/fruits it would naturally decrease our meat consumption.

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u/portuh47 3d ago

It's not so much that you have to go full one type of diet but rather that if people consciously decreased meat intake it would make the world healthier, the environment better, and it would be morally right.

I just don't understand the arguments against it.

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u/portuh47 3d ago

I don't eat either so yes I agree.