#a sedentary person could easily go vegan with minimal amounts of effort and not lack protein

[durn3h]

I think it’s less animal ag and more supplement companies than anything, really. I don’t think I’ve ever seen/heard a sedentary person ever fuss about protein if they weren’t trying to lose weight.

Pretty much the only people that regularly if ever eat much more than necessary are athletes and gymbros that don’t know any better. Regardless though, it’s really stupid. Eating more protein isn’t necessarily dangerous for your health, but protein is just way more expensive than any other form of energy and you really don’t need that much, especially as a sedentary person. It’s been a while since I’ve read the literature, so I might be remembering wrong, but I believe that for most people, optimum protein synthesis for muscle building is around .8g of protein per kg of body weight, with very diminished returns past that amount in most people. And that’s for building muscle, the amounts for sedentary is gonna be a whole lot lower because they aren’t literally destroying and rebuilding their muscles on a daily basis.

also i’m 100% convinced the protein dietary craze was and is a ploy by animal agriculture giants for profit. the average sedentary human being does NOT need 70-100+ grams of protein per day what the fuck. you know who needs that much? athletes and, like, pregnant women. like the thought that every ordinary person who doesn’t exercise (most of america, btw) needs SO MUCH PROTEIM for ENERGY is absurd and flat out dangerous to spin to the general public who are not powerlifting 1.5x their weight every day or gestating another human being from their own tissues

it’s not farfetched either to observe that many people are so obsessed with getting “pure protein” in their diet via highly subsidized animal products that they are forgoing or flat out displacing other foods that have broader nutritional content that is desperately needed and that could be unknowingly creating deficiencies (did you know you can starve on a high protein diet? the diet industry sure does!!!! 😁)