WTF, how much meat do Americans eat?

[Poulsonator]

Bullshit. You're missing vital things your body needs and will die early.

No facts to back this up, but I appreciate the concern.

 

[Dumac]

Bullshit. You're missing vital things your body needs and will die early.

Take a look at your teeth. Do they look like cows teeth? No.

ROFL are you serious?

I think more people in America die by choosing to eat too much meat than too little.

 

[pelov]

ROFL are you serious?

I think more people in America die by choosing to eat too much meat than too little.

Some of the longest living communities usually have lower-than-average meat consumption. For example, certain Japanese islands and the diets of those people have shown a pretty strong correlation.

Taken from The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Results: Our review of the 6 studies found the following trends: 1) a very low meat intake was associated with a significant decrease in risk of death in 4 studies, a nonsignificant decrease in risk of death in the fifth study, and virtually no association in the sixth study; 2) 2 of the studies in which a low meat intake significantly decreased mortality risk also indicated that a longer duration (≥ 2 decades) of adherence to this diet contributed to a significant decrease in mortality risk and a significant 3.6-y (95% CI: 1.4, 5.8 y) increase in life expectancy; and 3) the protective effect of a very low meat intake seems to attenuate after the ninth decade. Some of the variation in the survival advantage in vegetarians may have been due to marked differences between studies in adjustment for confounders, the definition of vegetarian, measurement error, age distribution, the healthy volunteer effect, and intake of specific plant foods by the vegetarians.

Conclusion: Current prospective cohort data from adults in North America and Europe raise the possibility that a lifestyle pattern that includes a very low meat intake is associated with greater longevity.

 

[sdifox]

I eat vegetarian animals ergo I am vegetarian.

 

[spidey07]

I eat vegetarian animals ergo I am vegetarian.

Aka. A predator.

 

[midwestfisherman]

MEAT!!!!

 

[Charles Kozierok]

Take a look at your teeth. Do they look like cows teeth?

Yes, actually, they do.




















Moo.

 

[Ronstang]

I have no desire to reduce my carbon footprint. In fact this year alone I have increased it immensely. In January I bought a new truck as my daily driver and I use the truck features of it all the time. In May I bought a 2600 sqft house to live in all by myself. It has a huge yard and I have to water and mow it quite a bit. Do I need it? Actually yes, and at my age I have worked hard for the things I have and it is time to start enjoying them.

Millions of years ago evolution determined my body was designed to eat meat AND vegetables and have sex with a woman. I see no reason to change that at this point as it has worked fine all these millennia.

I do take PB&J every day to work for lunch.

 

[Hugo Drax]

Down here we even eat the skins of the pig. Chicharrones.

 

[schneiderguy]

I'd rather live to 70 and eat a delicious cheeseburger a couple times a week than live to 90 and eat only rabbit food.

Of course libruls will soon ban the consumption of meat so I guess I won't have a choice.

 

[Bateluer]

Its because American's don't like their government telling them what to do. Doesn't matter what it is, if its good or bad, Americans simply do not want Uncle Sam telling them how to live their lives.

 

[CptObvious]

Funny how any advice by the government to cut back on consumption is seen as un-American or Communist. Back in WWII meat was rationed - the government didnt advise you to cut back, they made you. People who didn't were the un-Americans. Nowadays these clowns complain about having their freedoms and rights restricted on the mere mention of cutting back excess. It'll just be a matter of time before declining oil production, droughts in the Midwest and speculation drives up the price of meat to the point most regular people will have to cut back. It could be as early as this year so the USDA's advice now is not going to seem so crazy about next year.

 

[lxskllr]

Funny how any advice by the government to cut back on consumption is seen as un-American or Communist. Back in WWII meat was rationed - the government didnt advise you to cut back, they made you. People who didn't were the un-Americans. Nowadays these clowns complain about having their freedoms and rights restricted on the mere mention of cutting back excess. It'll just be a matter of time before declining oil production, droughts in the Midwest and speculation drives up the price of meat to the point most regular people will have to cut back. It could be as early as this year so the USDA's advice now is not going to seem so crazy about next year.

Yea, nannystatism doesn't come into effect until it's mandated. The government can recommend anything they want. It doesn't have to be followed. In this case it's a sensible recommendation on a few levels.

 

[MetalMat]

Yea, nannystatism doesn't come into effect until it's mandated. The government can recommend anything they want. It doesn't have to be followed. In this case it's a sensible recommendation on a few levels.

Well we are losing corn crops left and right due to the drought. Im guessing meat prices will go up sky high.

 

[OverVolt]

Ended the corn subsidy during a drought. Thats what this is really about. The food industry is temporarily turned on its head.

If you think soybean, corn prices etc are high, just wait until the increased meat prices rippled through, since cow feed is mostly corn, soybeans, wheat, etc.

USDA is trying to save face for not seeing it coming.

 

[OverVolt]

Funny how any advice by the government to cut back on consumption is seen as un-American or Communist. Back in WWII meat was rationed - the government didnt advise you to cut back, they made you. People who didn't were the un-Americans. Nowadays these clowns complain about having their freedoms and rights restricted on the mere mention of cutting back excess. It'll just be a matter of time before declining oil production, droughts in the Midwest and speculation drives up the price of meat to the point most regular people will have to cut back. It could be as early as this year so the USDA's advice now is not going to seem so crazy about next year.

Its not like they didn't know the corn subsidy was ending and that it would turn the agri industry on its head all by itself, then you add the drought because we bred corn crops with 1/3rd less roots. Their margin squeezing was never passed down to consumers, so its not my problem.

Add on to that futures contracts, most chain restaurants etc selling things at a loss right now on wall streets dime. Especially meat. Not my problem. Futures contracts were invented by Enron as an investment tool :/

So the chain restaurants tug the USDA's leg a little, and voila the article the OP posted.

 

[OverVolt]

Yea, nannystatism doesn't come into effect until it's mandated. The government can recommend anything they want. It doesn't have to be followed. In this case it's a sensible recommendation on a few levels.

No its really not, if the market was actually setting prices fairly, prices would have already been hiked. Its not going to peak until December. So in the meantime they do stuff like this.

The article pulls out all the dirty tricks. I mean really, did you read it? It tries to persuade you with

- greenhouse gas emissions
- overpopulation
- poor women
- climate change/global warming
- And those evil meat industry tycoons

or to persuade the USDA to ignore the self-serving indignation of the meat industry

Nevermind that its because wall street is eating dirt on their August delivery futures contracts for corn.

What you really should be doing is eating as much meat as you can for now, until prices REALLY get hiked.

 

[Matthiasa]

I did not have meat at all today.
Not that it actually counts since I had a ton of dairy...
If there were actually nutrition to milk, cream and cheese that might be all I would eat and drink.
That and if doing so didn't leave me feeling ill, to much cheese does bad things.

 

[MrMuppet]

No more meat for you, slave.

They're training you...

 

[techs]

Doctors have found evidence of heart disease in children as young as 10 years old who have died in accidents.

Fifty years ago it was unheard of in children that young.

Keep eating vast quantities of meat and sugar America. Early death is one way to fix Social Security.

 

[Baked]

I eat more carb than meat. But my body's designed to break down carbs and use it for energy rather than storing them in my ass like white girls. Daily I think I eat about 1/4 lb. of meat, home cooked.

 

[disappoint]

I can't wrap my head around the fact that some people don't have one meatless lunch per week.

It's not people's appetite for meat that's driving the outrage, it's people's appetite for money. Especially the people that already have a lot of it. The more money they have, the more they want and the more they are able to get it by lobbying, advertising, coercing, bribing, you name it.

It's the meat industry that's outraged not people who realize they can eat as much as they want no matter what anyone suggests. It's not like the health police are going to snatch your philly cheesesteak out of your hands if you didn't skip a day this week.

 

[disappoint]

Americans don't eat that much of meat. McDonalds hamburger - supposedly "meat" between 2 pieces sponge - supposedly "bread"...Can you call it as eating a meat? Anything you get @ McDonalds - weren't even close to any meat producing animal....

Chicken? Ever wondered? why so many "chicken" restaurants in black people neighborhood and why black people more overweight than others?
Answer - steroids that chicken are fed to grow faster and bigger. And eating "chicken", steroids go to human bodies...More damage does so called "Diet" - prolly few do know - for body to burn fat, fat is needed.

Don't want to get fat? try ukrainian beacon:





You'll never become fat...

Wonder why?

Ever wondered, why most asian people are so fit, not overweight, except for sumo fighters?
Maybe FISH? Most people don't consider fish as a meat, but, it's a meat - FISH MEAT...
Just difference, you can not mess up with fish as you can with chicken - who would pour tons of steroids into ocean, just like injecting steroids into growing chicks?

LOL Fail. Ever heard of mercury in fish? How do you think the joker went cuckoo for cocoa puffs?

 

[techs]

Funny how any advice by the government to cut back on consumption is seen as un-American or Communist.

Between government policies that subsidize meat and advertising that effectively tells us meat is the best thing for us to eat, most Americans believe that eating as much meat as possible the best thing and its available at a price most anyone can afford.

EVERY scientific study has shown us that too much meat is terrible for us. It is directly responsible for an epidemic of heart diseas and contributes greatly to obesity which causes a ton of health problems.

Yet Americans rarely hear this. Corporations in the business of selling meat and meat products spend an enormous sum of money every day telling us how great more meat is.

Basically, America is meat fucked.

If a government agency so much as tries to say that maybe eating too much meat is bad for you the right wingers will rise up en masse and cry "nanny state".

 

[sdifox]

LOL Fail. Ever heard of mercury in fish? How do you think the joker went cuckoo for cocoa puffs?

and beef and pork has this shit


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ractopamine