It is extremely harmful per se. Tradition is not an ethical or healthy reason to eat something. However, there is a strong correlation between certain traditional diets and human health. But not because they are traditional and that should not be used to justify or promote their practice. Such arguments are also used to rationalize absolutely needless cruelty, violence, and atrocity that even harms the practitioner.
Like I said, it sometimes correlates with healthy outcomes. It does not cause them. And it does not always correlate. Southern US food is absolutely lethal, everyone knows it, but they keep eating it because it’s traditional for them.
It is extremely harmful per se. Tradition is not an ethical or healthy reason to eat something. However, there is a strong correlation between certain traditional diets and human health. But not because they are traditional and that should not be used to justify or promote their practice. Such arguments are also used to rationalize absolutely needless cruelty, violence, and atrocity that even harms the practitioner.
Given that novelty is a predictor of inflammation, I would say tradition is a healthy reason and thereby an ethical reason to eat something.
Like I said, it sometimes correlates with healthy outcomes. It does not cause them. And it does not always correlate. Southern US food is absolutely lethal, everyone knows it, but they keep eating it because it’s traditional for them.