These are highly confounding statistics. Meat consumption grows with wealth and lifespan also grows with wealth. To say lifespan grows with wealth because of meat consumption doesn’t make sense.
Hong Kong’s beef consumption doubled since 2003. I’d wager your average elderly American ate more meat in their life than your average Hong Kong resident.
If you look at the article I linked to, it shows relatively flat beef consumption until the mid 2000s.
I’m not saying beef will kill you, but picking two or three rich countries that eat a lot of meat — and have a huge amount going for them in other ways — and comparing them to India is not science or a statistically significant thing. It’s like comparing teacher salaries and alcohol prices in the 1970s and saying one causes the other when they’re both the result of inflation.
No it shows a rising trend in meat eating beginning in 1961. Hong Kong has been prosperous for generations, by the way. It's not a recent phenomenon that Hong Kong has gotten wealthy.
You can look at the entire top 10 list of countries by life expectancy. They have plenty of meat consumption. There are no clinical studies implicating meat in shortened lifespans.
But people blindly spout off that a plant based diet is supposedly healthiest for you. There's no evidence to support that.
So has almost every other statistic... if you singled out every other factor such as internet access, technological advancements, health care, medicine and just gave people meat as a substitute for all of that do you think that would suddenly increase their life expectancy by 50%?
Hong Kong’s beef consumption doubled since 2003. I’d wager your average elderly American ate more meat in their life than your average Hong Kong resident.
Source: https://medium.com/@ecyY/meat-consumption-growth-in-hong-kon...