[ngoel36]

Disclosure: "This study was funded in part via an unrestricted research grant from the Beef Checkoff, through the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association."

[Rantenki]

I thought you were kidding, but I checked, and sure enough at the bottom: "This study was funded in part via an unrestricted research grant from the Beef Checkoff, through the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. The sponsor of the study had no role in the study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing of the report."

Maybe not, but how likely is it that they'll continue funding more studies if you come back with results that don't support more beef consumption?

Sorry, don't mean to be overly cynical, but <gestures around at basically everything>.

[chmod600]

If this were real science, it wouldn't matter because anyone could repro the results.

But almost all of this nutritional "science" is just people in white coats messing with statistics and sounding authoritative. Goes for the "meat is good" camp and the "meat is bad" camp.

(My personal belief is that only a very small amount of meat is good for your body, but having more meat is good for your brain.)

[colordrops]

If you want to see what appears to be a training ground for beef industry propaganda, check out /r/AntiVegan on Reddit. The vitriol is overpowering. I simply quoted a contradictory statistic from a paper a mod posted themselves that supposedly showed that not eating meat is unhealthy, and got banned.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AntiVegan/

It's wild to me how angry and threatened people get by a personal choice to not eat something.

[Sebb767]

> It's wild to me how angry and threatened people get by a personal choice to not eat something.

I think this is mostly a reaction because the other side gets very upset about people's choice to eat something.

A bit of it is surely the usual joking around, but no one is particularly upset about my personal dislike of eating fish, for example.

[SavantIdiot]

That is absolutely hilarious.

Thanks for pointing that out.

[micromacrofoot]

Wow, this should definitely be in the title.

If it was:

"National Cattlemen’s Beef Association funded study: Meat eaters suffer less depression, anxiety"

It would not have made it to the front page.

[viburnum]

This should be in the headline.

[travoc]

Who else is going to find a study that might show meat is good?

[marricks]

A far more believable source would be a university studying causes of depression. Literally anyone else not profiting off meat would be more believable though.

[sova]

Well that's all ya need to know now isn't it