Nutritional Heresy No. 4: You Probably Don’t Eat Enough Red Meat

We’ve been cutting down for years, and look where that’s got us

When planning big international events, some see it as an opportunity to impose their ideology on others, certain they’ll be sure to cooperate.

That must have been the thinking of the organisers of the 2024 Olympic games. They decided that athletes should ignore human biology and switch to an inferior, 60% meatless menu, for the sake of the planet. And what better time and place to educate them than the biggest sporting event in the world.

The athletes were having none of it. They demanded more meat and eggs and less tofu and pea protein, to much media attention. They couldn’t risk compromising their performance with inferior substitutes. The organisers had no choice but to reverse their decision and capitulate to the demands of the athletes.

Hot on the heels of the Olympics debacle came yet another study (by the same people at Harvard University who are famously anti-meat) suggesting that red meat is bad for us. Various reasons have been proposed, in the past, but none has ever stood up to scrutiny. This time the reasoning was that meat increases the risk of developing diabetes type 2.