Blue zones data massively fraudulent
Michael Easter's research found that blue zone longevity statistics — especially from Okinawa — are largely based on unreported deaths and pension fraud.
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Blue Zones Fraud, Meat Eating & Factory Farming
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Joe Rogan describes listening to author Michael Easter discuss the blue zone fraud problem: in Okinawa and other supposed longevity hotspots, families routinely fail to report deaths to the government so they can keep collecting the deceased's pension checks. This corrupts the death rate data so severely that the apparent longevity of these populations is simply not real. From there, Rogan pivots to meat: he argues that almost no serious professional athletes are plant-based, and that vegans often end up consuming more processed food than anyone else through meat substitutes and protein supplements. Both agree the deeper moral case for veganism breaks down when you acknowledge that life eats life at every level of the ecosystem — and that an arrow through an elk's heart is a far more humane death than what the elk would face from coyotes, mountain lions, or starvation.
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