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The silly reason why men love to eat meat so much
High consumption of red meat has been research-proven as harmful to health and even as something that can cause premature death.
But quite a few men think they need to eat meat to be considered masculine
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Friday, 16 July 2021, 08:00 Updated: 08:27
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The harms of the meat industry have been known for some time, and in recent years various efforts have been made to reduce red meat consumption in the global population, both for health reasons (increased risk of various types of disease found associated with red meat consumption), for humane (animal cruelty) and environmental reasons ( Industrialized farms are a significant factor in greenhouse gas emissions).
A new study suggests a new and unexpected avenue for reducing meat consumption, at least in half of the population - those who carry in their DNA the Y chromosome. That is, men.
The study, conducted at UCLA, reveals an interesting insight into one of the reasons men choose to eat meat: they think it makes them more masculine.
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"Changes in perceptions of things about ideal gender roles, and a move away from the traditional and outdated masculinity model may lead to a reduction in chicken and meat consumption," said psychologist Daniel Rosenfeld, who participated in the study and wrote the article in the journal Appetite.
Dr. Rosenfeld and his colleague Dr. Janet Tomiyama recruited 1,706 American adults aged 18-88 for their study and asked them to answer questionnaires about their frequency and amount of meat consumption, their willingness to become vegans or vegetarians and their tendency to adapt themselves to positions Traditional genders.
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"First, men reported more frequent consumption of all types of meat compared to women, this includes beef, pork, fish and poultry," the pair of researchers explained in an interview with the Daily Mail.
In addition, they found that men whose gender perceptions were more stereotypical ate beef and chicken more often and expressed stronger opposition to the possibility of switching to vegetarianism.
In contrast, men who consumed more pork and fish were less ideologically committed to stereotypical gender perceptions.
Whereas the women who participated in the study did not at all show similar trends of relationship between meat consumption and gender perceptions.
Therefore, the researchers concluded that in men, there is a connection between meat consumption and their perception of male identity.
Try to take into account gender perceptions in the struggle to reduce red meat consumption.
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"A deeper understanding of gender stereotypes may help in a campaign to reduce meat consumption among the population, in favor of improving human health and environmental sustainability," concluded researchers Rosenfeld and Tomiyama.
Consumption of red meat has been found in a variety of studies to be associated with an increased risk of premature mortality and morbidity in a number of areas.
Among other things, it has been linked to an increased risk of dying from cancer, heart attack, respiratory diseases, stroke, diabetes, various infections, Alzheimer's, kidney disease, and liver disease.
In the updated diet recommendations of the Israeli Ministry of Health, which were recently updated, the recommendation is to consume no more than 300 grams of red meat per week.
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