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mb meat intake is positively correlated with having enough calories. I.e. for people who are struggling to get enough to eat, of course they should eat meat.

mb meat intake is positively correlated with having enough calories. I.e. for people who are struggling to get enough to eat, of course they should eat meat. In contrast, I guess most readers of HN get enough calories and there will be no problem with eating veg

diath 3y ago
Pasta, potatoes, grains, and sugar all provide more calories than meat for cheap. Especially that if you're a meat eater you're more likely to eat lean, unprocessed meat if you can afford that.
throwaway8877 3y ago
Getting balanced diet of nutrients and calories is the key.
salynchnew 3y ago
Then it follows that meat intake is positively correlated with living somewhere that communities having enough surplus food or agricultural capacity to also feed/raise livestock.
nomel 3y ago
There are far cheaper sources of calories than meat. If anything, it's that meat is positively correlated with having enough nutrition, which is mostly the non calorie stuff. Lean meat is extremely nutritious, and relatively low calorie (since protein is incorrectly summed in caloric counts for meat, from 120 year old incorrect math [1], and the fact that the average person is never in a deep enough state of fasting/starvation for glycogenolysis to take over [2]). 1. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25033392-800-calories-on-food-packets-are-wrong-its-time-to-change-that/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25033392-800-calories... 2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3636601/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3636601/
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hombre_fatal 3y ago
Meat is the most inefficient way to grow calories. Beef, for example: > The inefficiency is particularly high for beef, which uses about three-fifths of the world’s agricultural land yet produces less than 5 percent of its protein and less than 2 percent of its calories. https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/2019-09/Solutions-for-Deforestation-Free-Meat.pdf https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/2019-09/Solutions... (based on FAO data)

diath 3y ago

Pasta, potatoes, grains, and sugar all provide more calories than meat for cheap. Especially that if you're a meat eater you're more likely to eat lean, unprocessed meat if you can afford that.

throwaway8877 3y ago

Getting balanced diet of nutrients and calories is the key.

salynchnew 3y ago

Then it follows that meat intake is positively correlated with living somewhere that communities having enough surplus food or agricultural capacity to also feed/raise livestock.

nomel 3y ago

There are far cheaper sources of calories than meat. If anything, it's that meat is positively correlated with having enough nutrition, which is mostly the non calorie stuff. Lean meat is extremely nutritious, and relatively low calorie (since protein is incorrectly summed in caloric counts for meat, from 120 year old incorrect math [1], and the fact that the average person is never in a deep enough state of fasting/starvation for glycogenolysis to take over [2]). 1. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25033392-800-calories-on-food-packets-are-wrong-its-time-to-change-that/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25033392-800-calories... 2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3636601/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3636601/

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hombre_fatal 3y ago

Meat is the most inefficient way to grow calories. Beef, for example: > The inefficiency is particularly high for beef, which uses about three-fifths of the world’s agricultural land yet produces less than 5 percent of its protein and less than 2 percent of its calories. https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/2019-09/Solutions-for-Deforestation-Free-Meat.pdf https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/2019-09/Solutions... (based on FAO data)