“Backlash Over Meat Dietary Recommendations Raises Questions About Corporate Ties to Nutrition Scientists”, Rita Rubin2020-01-15 (, ; similar)⁠:

[Summary of vegetarian activist/researcher reaction to recent reviews & meta-analysis indicating that the correlation of meat-eating with bad health often does not appear in epidemiological datasets, the randomized experiments do not support the strong claims, and the overall evidence that eating meat = bad health is low quality & weak:

After breaking the embargo, they began lobbying against it, spamming the journal editor, demanding the papers be retracted before publication, denouncing it in talks, and contacting the Federal Trade Commission & district attorneys demanding they investigate; they justify these activities by saying that since high-quality evidence can’t be easily obtained in nutrition, there is no need for it, and accusing the authors of financial conflicts of interest and comparing them to global warming deniers.

However, the conflicts of interest represent very small percentages of funding, and the vegetarian activist/researchers themselves are heavily funded by anti-meat interests, such as olive research institutions, walnut industry bodies, the egg industry, snack companies, and alternative diet groups, with the list of funders of one member including but far from limited to “the Pulse Research Network, the Almond Board of California, the International Nut and Dried Fruit Council; Soy Foods Association of North America; the Peanut Institute; Kellogg’s Canada; and Quaker Oats Canada.”]