is it healthier to eat no meat?

[FlatAssembler]

Then why do vegetarians, once you adjust for factors such as smoking, have around 7% less chance of getting cancer? If what you are saying were true, the effect would not be detectable by epidemiological studies, but it clearly is.

You keep throwing that number out. It doesn’t appear to be true.

https://veganhealth.org/chronic-disease-...getarians/

Vegans suffered from 67 deaths from cancer, with a rate not significantly different from regular meat-eaters (1.14, 0.88-1.47).

Boru

I must admit I am a bit surprised by that. Perhaps it's because vegans tend to eat a lot of soy, containing phytoestrogens which increase the risk of breast cancer.

This source claims that vegetarians have around 14% less chance of getting cancer, and there are quite a few sources making similar claims (I can't find one right now which claimed it's 7%, but that does not seem to be anomalious).