I do not buy that for a minute. I am convinced that this is pure propaganda put together by PETA and the likes. I do not have any qualitative basis to support claim (this is why I originally asked for studies) but I have a few facts that tend to support my claim:
1. Life expectancy is higher in countries with high beef consumption: Japan, France
1 Japan 82.6 79.0 86.1
2 Hong Kong ( China) 82.2 79.4 85.1
3 Iceland 81.8 80.2 83.3
4 Switzerland 81.7 79.0 84.2
5 Israel 81.6 79.7 83.4
6 Australia 81.2 78.9 83.6
7 Spain 80.9 77.7 84.2
8 Sweden 80.9 78.7 83.0
9 Macau ( China) 80.7 78.5 82.8
10 France (metropolitan) 80.7 77.1 84.1

to be compared with meat consumption
Denmark 74.1 69.2 69.2 71.1 73.7 1
Czech Republic 64.6 67.6 64.5 66.2 67.7 2
Spain 54.0 56.3 57.8 60.7 64.0 3
Germany 54.8 54.7 53.2 55.9 58.8 4
Austria 56.3 57.6 55.0 57.2 57.7 5
Hong Kong 54.4 49.9 52.7 54.9 54.3 6
Belgium-Luxembourg 54.4 55.1 43.0 47.0 52.6 7
Netherlands 44.2 44.3 42.9 43.9 43.7 8
Taiwan 40.2 41.7 39.6 44.3 42.5 9
Hungary 39.3 38.5 40.6 36.6 42.1 10
Ireland 37.9 38.4 40.2 40.1 40.5 11
Poland 38.6 41.2 34.2 38.3 39.6 12
Sweden 35.8 35.0 35.8 37.5 38.5 13
France 35.8 34.8 35.3 38.1 38.4 14
http://www.allcountries.org/uscensus..._meat_and.html


So there seems to be a correlation between meat consumption and high life expectancy

Second, the life expectancy increased dramatically in the past 200 years, and so did the individual consumption of meat. Whenever people COULD consume more meat, they WOULD. And they would become stronger and more healthy.

Similarly, while India is at the bottom of meat consumption, it is also at the bottom of life expectancy.

Once again I know correlation is not causation, but I challenge the vegans to produce unbiased stories proving that eating meat is unhealthy. What is probably unhealthy is to overeat and to avoid exercising.