Dan Buettner

And if you're on a starvation diet like most of human history, you know, we evolved in an environment of hardship and scarcity.

And yes, if you killed an animal,

You had a big meat feed.

You needed those calories.

You needed the protein.

But we live in an environment where for every man, woman, and children in America, there are 4,200 calories floating around every single day.

And marketers are dying to get us to buy and consume those calories.

We only need 2,200 calories.

So add on top of that the calorically dense, saturated fat-laden meat, and no, it's not a good idea.

If you look at the CDC, the Center for Disease Control, you'll see that the average American consumes between two and two and a half times more protein than they need.

So we tend to think, yeah, we're going to eat a bunch of protein and our muscles are just going to get bigger and bigger.

But that's not how it happens.

Most of us are getting plenty of protein to begin with.

And when we add more protein, it's hard on our kidneys.

Most of the time, we just piss it out and it's not doing us any good.

And it's hard on the environment.

Half a billion or so sentient creatures suffer so we can have our pork chop or our hamburger every year.

It's not good for us.

It's not good for the environment.

It's not good for the creatures we share this planet with.