This Is Vegan Propaganda (& Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

by Ed Winters

For example, a study from the University of Hawaii found that men routinely incorporate more red meat into their diet to reassure themselves when they feel their masculinity is under threat.41 And there can be no better demonstration of this than when Fox News host Jesse Watters ate a steak live on television in front of a social psychologist who had come on to discuss the perceived link between eating meat and masculinity.42 In what can only be described as an astounding display of irony, Watters genuinely thought that he was hilariously dismissing her work while actually validating the very point she was making: some men who feel the need to assert their masculinity, or who feel their masculinity is being threatened, will use red meat as a means to make themselves feel more manly.