The Myth of the Carnivore Diet

2min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

There are plenty of societies where vegetarianism is a norm. That doesn't mean that because it wasn't completely vegan by to day's standards all the way, all the time. The fact that the innuits did this, the only thing that proves is that it's like possible for humans. It's not really an argument to say that, like, this one society lived on this diet, therefore it's the best diet. T there's a lot of weird purity stuff wrapped up in this.

Oops all meat: How a '50s bodybuilder, a Grateful Dead roadie and an unreadable professor accidentally launched one of America's wildest fad diets.

Here's Mike's "Cancel Culture" video!

Note: In our discussion of Jordan Peterson’s political correctness lecture, I made a sarcastic comment about looking “slim in this dress.” After the episode came out, we started hearing from listeners that my comment reminded them of fatphobic jokes they’d heard in the past and didn’t feel consistent with the message of the show. They were right! It was a bad joke and we've removed it from the episode. We'll be discussing this and our approach to handling feedback and editing past episodes in more detail soon. Thanks to everyone who wrote in to let us know! — Mike

Support us:

Links!