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by p_j_w 20 days ago
>What's wrong with unpasteurized milk

A substantially increased risk of disease.

>What's wrong with [...] beef tallow?

A substantially increased risk of heart disease.

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You don't find traditional foods, like animal fat, causing modern diseases to be exceedingly unlikely?
I'm not sure I understand the question.
They're doing the strawman "we evolved with it" tactic commonly found among certain camps.

The problem with their argument is not only that no other part of our lives is similar to our "traditional" lives, evolution is basically done with us by 40. So from an evolutionary perspective, dying at 40 of CVD is not corrected for and ultimately doesn't matter. It's the same with the sun exposure nonsense -- evolution again doesn't care if you drop dead of melanoma in middle age, and it had no impact on pumping out a dozen kids and then dying and getting out of the way. In some ways it was optimal.