To Eat or Not to Eat Meat

Gastropod

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Science, Food, History, Arts

4.7 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

With flexitarianism on the rise throughout the developed world, and everyone from Bill Clinton to Beyoncé endorsing the benefits of a vegetarian or vegan diet, it can sometimes seem as though meat is just a bad habit that the majority of us are too weak-willed to kick. But is giving up meat morally superior, healthier, and better for the planet, as its advocates insist? This episode, we fearlessly dive into the long, tangled history and surprisingly nuanced science behind those claims. Listen in now for the truth on Pythagoras, cow farts, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.1	People just say things assert, you know, with rarely pausing to bolster their argument
0:36.7	by any persuasive mean known to humanity.
0:41.0	So we started from one of those assertions which is that it is better environmentally speaking
0:52.4	to eat plants than it is to eat animals.
0:56.4	That's something you hear a lot.
0:58.3	We should all be vegetarians because that's how to save the planet.
1:01.7	That's not the only claim you'll hear about giving up meat.
1:04.5	Another one is that we'd all be much healthier, if your heart attacks less cancer, longer
1:08.4	lives.
1:09.4	And that's before you get to the moral arguments around taking animal lives and this whole
1:13.2	idea of animal rights.
1:14.8	Those are the claims, but what's the evidence?
1:17.3	That's just what we'll be looking at this episode.
1:19.2	We're listening to Gastropod, the podcast that looks at food through the lens of science
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