Yeah, I don’t think most of them have nefarious intent, they are just clueless and “don’t know what they don’t know.”
I mentioned to a Dr friend of mine that I didn’t want to go to Wendy’s because I was trying to eat “clean” (i.e., avoid CAFO chicken and meat) and she literally thought I was implying the restaurant was dirty. Absolutely clueless.
Yea, the doctors aren’t the radicals here as I doubt any person goes through all that effort to get the license, just to be involved in the killing of their patients. It started with one idiot, Ancel Keyes, who sent the country away from meat, and particularly fat. Maybe he had a political agenda, although I don’t know of it - more likely he just put 2 and 2 together and said that if you don’t want to get fat, then don’t eat fat...and given that the experts of the day simply had no information on biological processes back then, they couldn’t really argue with him.
Even so, that otherwise wouldn’t be enough to overturn hundreds, if not thousands of years of dietary recommendations - the problem was that Keyes simply bullied everyone who asked him for proof, or showed him why he was wrong - no one could stand up to him.
Then, 10 years later, around 1970, the Left figured out that Keyes was very useful in getting people away from meat, so they embedded themselves in Big Government to enforce what Keyes claimed and the rest is history (including the Obesity and Diabetes Epidemics).
Run of the mill doctors, on the other hand, simply had to go along for the ride, they had no choice. But thankfully, albeit slowly, the TRUTH is coming out. Two examples:
1. The advice to avoid ‘saturated fat’ (butter, red meat fat, and other delicious stuff) is now totally gone from government recommendations (removed very quietly, by the way)...although they still say to minimize meat and fat.
2. The American Diabetes Association, for the first time ever, has admitted that the old way to treat Type 2 Diabetes, which was to minimize carbs, might actually actually work (rather than loading people with insulin). That just came out within the past year.
So progress is slowly being made, but it’s tough - we’re talking about near-total overhaul of everything we think about eating and some areas of health care, including the following:
1) Red Meat: Was bad, now good; Fat on Red Meat: Was bad, now good. Leave the fat on...no more lean cuts, etc.
2) Carbs: Certain carbs (whole grain, etc.): Was good, now bad (along with all other carbs).
3) Go out to eat - large numbers people will DEMAND near-zero carbs (i.e., Keto) - finally, some businesses are starting to catch on, but still very few.
4) Obviously Big Medicine will feel it - ‘treating’ diabetic patients (more like giving moral support while slowly killing them at the same time) is a HUGE BUSINESS, and their customer base will shrink - the only question is how much.