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by unrestifarian 1483 days ago
Two-fold Motivation: Diagnosed as pre-diabetic, reducing global warming

Recently learned that saturated animal fat is linked to a depletion of insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas (thus causing type II diabetes). For some reason everyone talks about sugar as the bad guy, but animal fat plays a big part.

This and of course, the huge cost of meat on our environment.