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How a month of abstinence can lead to 'meat disgust' | There are some surprising impacts of cutting out meat, even for a short period, which can carry on well beyond the end of abstinence.

www.bbc.com How a month of abstinence can lead to 'meat disgust'

There are some surprising impacts of cutting out meat, even for a short period, which can carry on well beyond the end of abstinence.

How a month of abstinence can lead to 'meat disgust'

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Been vegan for going on five years and I've never experienced this tbh
- That's called an anecdote and I've got one, too: I stopped eating red meat and now I don't find beef or lamb appetizing at all.
  Seems like it doesn't happen to everyone and the article agrees with that
  Of the 40 participants, 28 reported an increase in meat disgust.
  
  Of the 40 participants, 28 reported an increase in meat disgust.
  A study on a group of 40 is an anecdote at best, a waste of resources at worst.
  Reporting on it in on a big news website should be a crime, as it's just a clickbait.
  
  The article also site other studies too. (It calls the N=40 preliminary early research)
  
  From another study with N=700:
  We measured self-reported meat consumption, meat disgust (by self-report and Implicit Association Test),
  IAT is phrenology of social studies. You can discard it as garbage. If a study is using IAT as methodology, it's garbage done to gain some publication points.
  You can read more about IAT: https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/1015-5759/a000778
- Tends to doesn't means always will ¯(ツ)/¯
  
  Tendies?
  
  ? Are you're saying that no one could be disgusted? Because plenty of people have moral disgust there which what this article is primarily about
  
  I assume it's a reference to the breaded strips of Chicken

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