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Harvard Has Been Anti-Meat for 30+ Years—Why?

Harvard Has Been Anti-Meat for 30+ Years—Why?

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Nov 05, 2023
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Red meat is bad for health. We hear this from virtually all our nutrition authorities, and so, it must be true. Far less well known is the fact that this fear of eating red meat can mainly be traced back to a single person, Harvard’s Walter C. Willett, the first and most prominent anti-meat champion in academia. Indeed, in 1990, the year before he start…

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