The Meatfluencers Who’ve Sworn Off Veggies

When Melody first scrolled across TikToks from influencers promoting an only-meat diet, she remembers thinking to herself: These people are out of their minds. The videos of people eating huge quantities of steak straight off the cutting board — sometimes still bloody rare — had initially seemed “insane.” But as this kind of content kept reappearing on her “For You” page, she grew curious. “People were claiming to be able to heal their gut, clear up their skin, and improve their energy — just from eating meat,” says the 36-year-old from Toronto. Though these claims aren’t backed by any scientific research, Melody says “it felt like it was worth a shot.”

Fossil fuels, deforestation, and animal agriculture made outdoor temperatures at Tuesday’s Olympics about 5°F hotter than they normally would have been. Also, Flava Flav and Alexis Ohanian are basically bankrolling Team USA, Google pulled its controversial AI Olympics ad, and Andy Murray drew a line under his tennis career. In other news, Deadheads for Kamala is a thing. They changed how the ABCs are sung. Making the case against writing your own wedding vows. The 2024 Book Prize longlist is here. Post-Roe, OB/GYNs are seeing more pregnant patients with dangerous medical complications, but some of them aren’t getting abortion-care training at all. And it’s long overdue, but scientists are exploring how pregnancy changes the brain, preparing it for motherhood.

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