The Carnivore Diet: Just A Dangerous Fad

Eliminate all plant foods and carbohydrates, eat only flesh, lactations and ovulations, and you'll enter the miracle land of ketogenesis. They say it reduces inflammation, clears your skin, and boosts your overall health. Spoiler alert: this is complete nonsense.

The Reality Check

There’s zero credible evidence that an all-animal diet is beneficial long-term. In fact, science consistently tells us the opposite: eating primarily or exclusively animal-based products significantly increases your risk of serious diseases. 

Heart disease, various cancers, type 2 didiabetes, scurvy, and even gout - these aren't vague possibilities; they're documented, predictable outcomes of diets high in meat. If carnivore-diet fans were rigorously tracked over decades, the data would undoubtedly confirm these increased health risks compared to those enjoying plant-rich diets. 

Why Do Some People Temporarily Feel Better?

It's not surprising that some people initially claim improvement when adopting a carnivore or low-carb diet. After all, cutting out certain foods can temporarily mask food allergies, sensitivities, or intolerances. This initial relief is common in any elimination diet - it simply means you've removed a problematic ingredient. You could have chosen to live off potatoes. But let's not confuse temporary relief with genuine long-term health.

Elimination diets are never intended to be permanent solutions. They’re short-term diagnostic tools, designed specifically to identify troublesome foods, followed by a controlled reintroduction of a wide variety of healthy, plant-based items to ensure balanced nutrition. Permanently restricting yourself to animal parts is neither advisable nor healthy - it's an unnecessary gamble with your well-being.

The Long-Term Damage

Advocates of the carnivore diet conveniently overlook overwhelming medical evidence highlighting the harms of flesh-heavy eating patterns. Saturated fats, cholesterol, absence of dietary fibre, and exposure to carcinogenic compounds like heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, formed during cooking flesh, are clear indicators of elevated risk factors for chronic diseases.

Let's not sugar-coat it (particularly as sugar is carb-based and thus a carnivore’s declared enemy): repeatedly consuming exclusively animal-derived foods subjects your body to serious health threats that no anecdotal short-term relief could justify.

The Ethical Elephant in the Room

Beyond health, let's not forget the moral absurdity of promoting diets exclusively centred on animal exploitation. To reject plant foods and rely solely on animals means endorsing continuous exploitation, commodification, and disregard for animals’ intrinsic rights and freedoms. Choosing a diet that inherently views animals as commodities cannot align with a rational or compassionate worldview.

Conclusion

Feeling good for a few weeks doesn't justify long-term damage to your body or the systematic exploitation of sentient animals. Ignore the carnivore diet fad; choose balanced, plant-rich nutrition that truly sustains your health and aligns with ethical principles of justice and respect for animals. 

It's straightforward: your health deserves better, and so do the animals.