Acharya Prashant explains that the current surge in meat consumption is a relatively recent phenomenon, emerging only about 200 years ago alongside industrialization. This trend was fueled by the unscientific belief that meat is the sole source of essential nutrients like protein and calcium. While scientific data from the last several decades conclusively proves that humans are not historically prolific meat-eaters and that meat and milk consumption can have harmful effects on the body, this information faces resistance from massive financial and political interests within the global meat and animal agriculture industries. The momentum of habit and the influence of these powerful industries make it difficult for people to correct this dietary mistake. Addressing the presence of contradictory scientific reports, Acharya Prashant compares the meat industry's tactics to those previously used by the tobacco and fossil fuel industries. He notes that for decades, the tobacco industry sponsored pseudo-scientific reports to deny the link between smoking and cancer until it became impossible to maintain the lie. Similarly, the fossil fuel industry has long funded reports to create confusion about the reality and human causes of climate change. He asserts that greed drives these groups to present blatant lies as scientific evidence to protect their profits, with the primary objective being to prevent the public from reaching a state of certainty regarding the harmful impacts of their products.