It’s true, everyone is different but there is very strong evidence that eating a low carb diet slows type 2 diabetes right down and even stops it in it’s tracks - this case study last year is a case in point. And a new study by CSIRO released this year showed a 40% reduction of meds in the low carb diet group. Or this research comparing low carb to low fat. When it comes to the pancreas, the reason why the low carb diet is getting great results is basic biochemistry. Carbohydrate foods cause the pancreas to release insulin, and too much insulin increase insulin resistance. So naturally, when we lower carb intake, we have less glucose in the bloodstream, less insulin production, and insulin sensitivity improves. So all round there can be major changes on a GlycoMode metabolic support level. That’s not to say it works for everyone or that you should feel guilty if you do have to take meds. Everyone is different so although we have research to help guide our choices, we also need to listen to our own bodies and work with our health care team to achieve the best results.

What is this post about? The list of negative effects of meat consumption is long. They range from animal suffering over global food distribution considerations to climate change and more. In this post, I want to elaborate on the problematic aspects of eating meat and show how it is possible and easy to switch diets without any loss in quality of life. TLDR; please don’t eat meat - it’s really bad for everyone. I think most people have heard that animals are held in bad conditions, that meat is less effective than other kinds of food on an energy per gram measure, that meat uses a lot of water during production, etc. However, during most of the discussions I personally had, heard or read about the topic there were astonishingly little numbers and weighings involved. To exaggerate - “you are either a Nazi for eating meat” or “you are a Nazi for taking away someone’s freedom to eat meat” is a discourse that I have witnessed way too often. (Image: https://www.freepixels.com/class=)

Therefore I want to focus mostly on the size of the effects w.r.t. I think the most obvious but also most impactful problem with an animal diet is the animal suffering it creates. To give a broad overview of the current state of meat consumption consider the following figures. The number of animals killed per year increases pretty drastically, the growth of chickens killed for consumption looks exponential and that for pigs linear. We obviously do not know if that will continue but we do know that consumption has not always been this high. Given that meat is a status symbol in many countries and poverty goes down this is a likely indicator for a still-growing trend. The global meat consumption is actually extremely high in objective terms. Assuming that the world has around 7 billion inhabitants this would imply that on average a person eats roughly eight chickens and a fifth of a pig per year. This average gets even bigger when considering that many countries do not consume a lot of meat either due to poverty or religious reasons, e.g. India or many African countries.

Looking at the global distribution, richer countries consume more meat than poorer ones. The USA, for example, consumes 8 billion chickens per year which translate to roughly 25 chickens per person and year. The conditions in which animals are held are horrible in the vast majority of cases (check out mercy for animals for images and further facts). One could consume meat from a more sustainable and fair production but it still comes with all the effects of climate change and inefficient allocation of resources. Additionally, it is not scalable to the same extent as factory farming and therefore many people would have to reduce the amount of meat consumption in any case. However, my main focus is less on exposing these conditions but rather on arguing what they mean in more comprehensive terms. In the Holocaust approximately 17 Million people were murdered. 0.00028th of the moral worth of a human this means humanity commits one Holocaust every year on chickens alone.