Replying to Avatar Ken Berry, MD

Spreading misinformation isn't going to help your cause.

Meat don't fix your health.

The vast majority of obese and malnourished people eat meat.

What you should say is reduce your intake of ultra processed foods and increase your intake of whole foods, meat is not a whole food unless you eat the fur but we can ignore that and include meat with eggs and vegetables and whole grains.

That plus regular exercise outdoors.

And if you wanted to go into more detail, reduce your sugars and choose better carbs, increase your proteins and fibres, and choose better fats.

Can't tell people eating meat fixes their health, they will only end up eating the meat lovers pizza instead of the supreme, they'll eat more meat pies and ultra processed garbage.

You don't have to eat meat to be healthy though anyway, humans are extremely adaptable.

We evolved as frutivores, our ancestors more than 200 thousands years ago were eating fruit nuts insects leaves and the occasional root vegetable or bird egg.

Climatic changes most likely pushed us onto the savannahs out of the jungles, our form changed, we stopped using our hands to aid mobility and started walking upright.

But we still have the same teeth, we still have the same digestive system.

There's a reason that we cook meat.

There's a reason we grind grains and cook them ro make bread.

Dogs and pigs are omnivores, look at what they can eat without getting sick.

Their tolerance to microbes that grow on meat.

You have to keep meat very clean to eat raw, they don't.

It just happens we figured out how to process meat and grains to make them safe to eat.

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