The second point about this debate I find frustrating is again the point that there is no such thing as “meat”. No creature or entity is healthy on its own or healthy as someone else’s food (and aren’t we all, eventually, that) if we don’t get our optimal diet. Of course eating cow that ate corn isn’t going to work. For either the cow or the person.

I also don’t appreciate the extrapolation of many of these studies to more extreme diets than the one studied. For example the Mediterranean diet, you will see that they observed that they eat a good amount of yogurt and then the recommendation from this observation is to eat low-fat yogurt. Well, that isn’t the same is it? The China Study observed less meat consumption. The recommendation is to eat no meat. Not the same. Although the authors say it is.

I also think the science about cholesterol on which they, the China Study authors, based a bulk of their conclusions is changing and that there is more going on in the dynamic of heart disease and diet than we understand. Given all the “paradoxes” about saturated fat and cholesterol consumption around the world. The WHO explains Chronic Disease as related to diet and lifestyle and urges people to replace saturated animal fats with vegetable oils, but that’s what we’ve been doing for the last 50 years and these problems have just gotten worse. So is the answer to keep with what we have been doing, but more? I don’t think it is, I think we have to step back to the food cultures that kept us healthy for this long. But what do I know, I’m not a scientist.