This isn't about soda, ZeaLitY...
Anyhow, with regard to the topic itself, I seriously doubt the veracity of that chart. I'd want to see some proof that: A) the chart's claims are true; and B) the chart is not selective in its facts so as only to present facts that support its argument. Human beings are well adapted for eating meat and reclaiming its nutritional value, and animal hunting outdates recorded history.
As for all of the pathetically defensive pro-meat people who have posted in this thread, they are guilty of a blatantly unintellectual approach to the discussion on grounds of having established their opinion prior to considering the facts. Their disregard for animals' rights and for human health both should be disregarded by the rest of us. They aren't saying anything that is necessarily truthful; they're just editorializing.
Next, Cup of Noodles, for his part, makes an interested if misguided claim: We're hypocrites to worry about eating meat when we're already screwing up everything. However, that argument is a logical fallacy and doesn't count, because whether or not we are messing things up elsewhere has no bearing on the wisdom of a particular, unrelated behavior. If eating meat were imprudent, we would not be wrong to stop doing it simply because we're still messing up the world in other ways. On the contrary, that would be a good move...if eating meat were imprudent.
Lastly, I would finish by saying that few if any of us in this thread are qualified to talk about the costs and benefits of a normalized level of meat consumption in the human diet with regards to human health. With regards to animal rights, perhaps a couple of us are aware of the magnitude of animal abuse that goes into the production of human meat, but only a couple.
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