The Post-Partisan Emporium

Another study about FOOD! Not to be too boring, just the tasty parts: We examined the association between meat intake and life expectancy at a population level based on ecological data published by the United Nations agencies. Population-specific data were obtained from 175 countries/territories. Scatter plots, bivariate, partial correlation and linear regression models were used with SPSS 25 to explore and compare the correlations between newborn life expectancy (e (0) ), life expectancy at 5 years of life (e (5) ) and intakes of meat, and carbohydrate crops, respectively. The established risk factors to life expectancy - caloric intake, urbanization, obesity and education levels - were included as the potential confounders. Worldwide, bivariate correlation analyses revealed that meat intake is positively correlated with life expectancies. This relationship remained significant when influences of caloric intake, urbanization, obesity, education and carbohydrate crops were statistical...

Grams of protein in context One of the most meaningless stats bantered about by sophists is “grams of protein”. Why? Because proteins from different sources of food have different amino acid compositions and different bio-availability. So arguing that 100 grams of kidney beans has the same amount of protein as 100 grams of beef is not only not true, but is also quite asinine. Though, no matter how many times you point this out whenever you see popular memes littered around the internet, food religious zealots seem to even more fervently stick to their cultist beliefs. Regardless, for shits and giggles, let’s deconstruct the frequently posted 100 grams of beef versus 100 grams of kidney bean meme. PROTEIN To begin with, per nutritondata.self.com , 100 grams of cooked kidney beans has only 8.6 grams of protein . Whereas 100 grams of a beef, rib, eye has 26.2 grams of protein So you need to eat 300 grams of beans to get a similar weight in grams of protein. But again, “grams of protein” i...

Let them eat bugs The elites’ war on meat has taken a disgusting turn. Andrew Orlowski Last winter, as the prospect of yet another forced isolation loomed, the lines of queues snaked around the block. I couldn’t tell what they were for, at first. But every one of these queues led to the door of a butchers, and there, in the freezing fog, the stoicism and patience of the queuers told its own story. Meat matters. The revival of butchers in gentrified neighbourhoods resembles the changes in the pub trade: there are fewer than there once were, but speciality or ‘craft’ butchers are springing up to feed the demand for quality. However, the comparison falls short, for it isn’t only wealthy millennials who have retained their enthusiasm for cooking meat. ‘It’s working-class families, too’, food journalist Joanna Blythman tells me. In fact, as a nation we spent an extra  £600million more on meat  in 2021 compared with 2020. The  top-down messaging  assures us that veganism i...