{"id":123831,"date":"2021-06-15T08:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T15:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/vegans-diets-and-longevity-what-existing-science-actually-says"},"modified":"2021-06-15T08:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T15:22:18","slug":"vegans-diets-and-longevity-what-existing-science-actually-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/vegans-diets-and-longevity-what-existing-science-actually-says","title":{"rendered":"Vegans Diets and Longevity: What Existing Science Actually Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vegans-diets-and-longevity-what-existing-science-actually-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization classifies processed meat as a Group 1 carcinogen. Processed meat includes ham, sausage, bacon, pepperoni; they\u2019re meats that have been preserved with salt or smoke, meat that has been cured, and meat treated with chemical preserves. Other Group 1 carcinogens include formaldehyde, tobacco, and UV radiation. Group 1 carcinogens have \u2018enough evidence to conclude that it can cause cancer in humans.\u2019<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>There is no question whether or not our current meat production complex is inhumane, unsanitary, or bad for the environment. Almost all chickens (99.9%), turkeys (99.8%), and most cows (70.4%) eaten in the United States are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sentienceinstitute.org\/us-factory-farming-estimates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">raised on factory farms<\/a>. There are horrific consequences to this practice.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the EPA estimates agriculture is the biggest contaminator of rivers and streams, to the point where feedlots, crop production, and manure runoff have led almost half (46%) of the U.S.\u2019s rivers to be \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/sites\/production\/files\/2017-12\/documents\/305brtc_finalowow_08302017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in poor biological condition<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/how-drug-resistant-bacteria-travel-from-the-farm-to-your-table\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Scientific American<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>also explains, \u201cTDM-approved feed containing antibiotics [are] a necessity if [factory farm animals] were to stay healthy in their crowded, manure-gilded home. Antibiotics also help farm animals grow faster on less food, so their use has long been a staple of industrial farming.\u201d Many scientists worry that antibiotics used at such a scale on farms create unstoppable, drug-resistant bacteria that can transfer to humans; think inconveniences like nose infections or UTIs turned deadly because of the lack of antibiotics available to treat them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization classifies processed meat as a Group 1 carcinogen. Processed meat includes ham, sausage, bacon, pepperoni; they\u2019re meats that have been preserved with salt or smoke, meat that has been cured, and meat treated with chemical preserves. Other Group 1 carcinogens include formaldehyde, tobacco, and UV radiation. Group 1 carcinogens have \u2018enough [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,269,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-life-extension","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}