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Meat, August 1946 (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by GraniteM@lemmy.world to c/vintageads@sh.itjust.works

From LIFE Magazine, August, 1946

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[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 56 points 3 weeks ago

Feels like a 1940s ad for cigarettes now that we know red meat significantly increases risk of cardiovascular disease, breast and various gastrointestinal cancers, and type 2 diabetes.

[-] rhythmisaprancer@piefed.social 27 points 3 weeks ago

Ya, I was just thinking this is a great example of a propaganda poster.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 26 points 3 weeks ago

all ads are propaganda

[-] b34k@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago

Kind of a false equivalency there. The casual link between meat consumption and those diseases is much less clear than cigarettes and cancer. In fact, overconsumption of sugars is much more directly linked to type 2 diabetes than meat consumption, for example.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

overconsumption of sugars is much more directly linked to type 2 diabetes than meat consumption

... Duh? Everyone knows that. You're talking about logical fallacies and then going on to an irrelevant whataboutism.

If you want to hide your head in the sand over unprocessed red meat "only" being a Group 2A carcinogen (processed meat is Group 1 and has been since 2015, meaning definitively causing cancer; in that sense, those hot dogs on the left are causally linked to cancer), be my guest. Doesn't change the reality that eating red meat for some strange reason I guess we'll never know significantly elevates risk for at least four of the leading causes of death in the developed world.


Edit: And if this is supposed to be some false dichotomy where eating meat is the lesser evil because anything else would risk diabetes from carbohydrate overconsumption, have I got some interesting news for you.

Interventional studies have shown that vegetarian diets, especially a vegan diet, are effective tools in glycemic control and that these diets control plasma glucose to a greater level than do control diets, including diets traditionally recommended for patients with diabetes

Guess the American Diabetes Association just hasn't seen this 1946 poster yet, or they'd understand.

[-] b34k@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Ugh… vegans. Worse than Mormons

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm sorry. I'll try to make your claims about health less disingenuous going forward.

[-] whimsy@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

What the fuck is this response

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Notice how he didn't actually address the point you made, just threw a wall of weak epidemiology and appeal to authority about a different subject.

[-] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ugh.... Assholes. Everyone has them, but you use yours to type. Apart for being impressed at how much practice that must have taken you, really: stop defecating on the world with your words, shitheels.

[-] Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio 12 points 3 weeks ago

Don't care, didn't plan on living forever anyway.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

You're welcome to do what you want. My comment wasn't trying to stop you from smoking.

[-] thejml@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 weeks ago

Imagine saying "I work for the American Meat Institute".

I thought that was slightly humorous, but apparently they merged with others to become the "North American Meat Institute" in 2015... and theres a whole subsidiary that Im sure people have business cards spelling out: the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council... giggity.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

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[-] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 weeks ago

I think they have an OnlyMans.

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago
[-] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe this would be harder to make fun of if they'd used much better cuts of meat in the poster.

This maybe fits in a boring dystopia.

[-] mobotsar@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

They're all ground up, so I don't see how you could know what cuts were used.

[-] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago

I thought this was satire after looking at the state of those burgers.

[-] Steve@startrek.website 4 points 3 weeks ago

I’m amazed. Maybe they only had one exposure left on the camera.

[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

What's wrong with the patties?

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

Nothing is wrong - it looks like a real food photo rather then the modern style of non-edible things made to look like some idealized concept of food.

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