Our Beef with the Media’s Beef with Beef Science

The The New York Times recently sounded alarms about conflicts of interest in studies that say red meat isn’t so bad – essentially claiming Big Beef is skewing science.

Critics quickly fired back that we “never see similar reporting on studies promoting plant-based foods, pointing out a one-sided media appetite for anti-meat narratives.

Indeed, the nutrition-industrial complex has its own deep ties: nearly half the experts on the U.S. Dietary Guidelines committee have financial links to big food, pharma or weight-loss industries.

In other words, when it comes to nutrition science, everyone has skin (or steak) in the game, but only some get grilled for it.