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In reply to the discussion: If you must eat meat... "Replace Beef with Poultry or Pork" [View all]kentauros
(29,414 posts)but I don't think "discussion" is what too many come here for. That is, debate is king.
However, I would love to have a discussion on this.
Here's something I read some years ago (sorry y'all anal types, I didn't keep a record and link and printout of who said it or in what publication) was that Americans eat way too much protein. And too much protein in the body wreaks havoc on the calcium in our bones. In other words, eating too much daily protein helps the body to leach calcium out of your bones. Hopefully people will see where that can lead.
So, if you can't get people to at least think about cutting back even just a little on meat consumption for the sake of the environment they utilize second to second, then get them on health consequences. Make it personal and then they begin to think