Research shows more than 2 oz of meat a day causes cancer

Mark Bittman, successful chef and food author, makes a good case for eating less meat. He goes into interesting livestock production and meat consumption facts for the US. After energy production, livestock production is the 2nd highest cause of air and water pollution and water shortages in the US.

Plants are known healing foods and for better health we should strive to eat less meat, less junk and more plants.

That 2 oz (about 12g) of meat is more accurately stated as consuming more than 5% of your daily caloric intake from animal based protein causes cancer.  Meat is not the only culprit here because that 2oz is 2oz from any “animal based protein” which includes cheese, yogurt, eggs and bacon.  One way of looking at it is this includes anything that had a “Mother”!

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