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Endless Thread

WBUR

Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

What if vegetables are poison? What if, instead, humans evolved to consume an animal-based diet of steak, liver, brain, testicles, eggs, butter, and milk?

Shirtless influencers on TikTok and Instagram have acquired millions of followers promoting the carnivore diet. They say studies linking meat consumption and heart disease are flawed — and plant foods are making people sick.

Likewise, meatfluencers say the livestock industry has no significant impact on the climate crisis despite abundant evidence suggesting otherwise.

No controlled studies have been published confirming the advertised benefits of the carnivore diet. Yet, its popularity online is undeniable.

In this rebroadcast, Endless Thread looks at how social media cooked up the anti-establishment wellness trend.

You can find our transcript, with links and additional resources, here: www.wbur.org/carnivore

Credits: This episode was produced by Dean Russell and Ben Brock Johnson. Mixing and sound design by Emily Jankowski. Ben Brock Johnson and Dean Russell are the co-hosts.

Image Credit: Peter Dazeley/Getty

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0:52.2	Hey, endless threaders.
0:56.8	How you feeling?
0:58.1	Are you stuffed?
0:59.6	Are you triptiphoned out?
1:01.8	Have you been making your leftover turkey sandwiches or tofurky sandwiches or whatever
1:07.1	kind of sandwiches you want to make after all that eating and hanging with fam.
1:12.5	We hope you're doing very well.
1:15.1	This week, we're hitting you with a rerun because we are, you know, stuffed ourselves and
1:21.8	hanging out on the couch, probably watching some TV, hopefully not shopping too much.
1:30.1	In light of this Black Friday, we want to give you an episode about meat, about TikTok, about healthy diets, and unhealthy diets,
1:39.8	and how all of these things are working together to try to sell you something.
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