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You know I totally trust animal researchers.

;-)

(The idea you can measure the impact of a pro-veg method on chicken consumption is, IMHO, laughable.)

An old post, but:

https://www.mattball.org/2015/01/continuing-with-2014s-greatest-hits.html

“‘If you look at dietary recommendations put forth by the U.S. Department of Agriculture [and other health institutions], they are to decrease red meat and substitute lean meat, poultry and fish,’ says Daniel [a nutritional epidemiologist at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center]. ‘We’ve seen in other data that people are gravitating toward poultry.’”

The National Institutes of Health notes “[t]he growing preference in the US for poultry, but not fish, as a replacement for red meat.”

...in the largest recent study, those who consumed the lowest amount of red meat ate fifty percent more chicken than those who consumed the most red meat. [Aston, L. M., et al. Meat Intake in Britain in Relation to Other Dietary Components and to Demographic and Risk Factor Variables: Analyses Based on the National Diet and Nutrition Survey of 2000/2001. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics 26(1), October 18, 2012.]

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