I ate only McDonald's burgers for two months 

I wonder when the last time is that Dave actually bought an item of clothing. I think I've never seen him in anything other than mountain equipment

And maybe it had an affect on me liking their products. You can give Dave a raise 😉 I love my echo softshell for example.

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Curious if there was a McDonalds sponsorship here too, seems so expensive to buy so many burgers for a month otherwise!

@Talia Page here in the USA single burger patty would probably cost about a dollar. 16 dollars a day on food seems pretty reasonable.

And also I can confirm that such a diet when getting on and off it for me at least works wonders for climbing.

​@@TechnocraticBushman I can also confirm the same results are possible without meat, it is just a case of incorporating keto rules. Much more ethical that way too :)

@@SirPhytone is it more ethical though? The carbon cost of flying and shipping in all of the foods required to make that possible is huge.

​@@christianvollenhoven Yes, I literally cannot see a case where it would not be more ethical. 1. 95% of animal products are factory farmed, so the meat industry is extremely unethical. And even if you farm your own animals, killing them for meat cannot be done in an ethical/humane way, unfortunately it is impossible. 2. Said animals also need to be fed plants, often that is imported soy. In fact the two biggest reasons for rainforest deforestation is soy for animal feed and cattle farming! 3. Look up the land use per kCalories of food, takes 100x the land to have beef over potatoes for example, or ~60x for nuts. It's all very well to say it's not so bad to farm meat on a local farm and use the manure to fertilise crops etc, but the reality is with the current world population, it is only the very privileged who can do that. Not only are costs much much higher when meat is farmed in this way,, but there simply isn't enough space on the planet.

@@christianvollenhoven It has been shown time and again how, even considering transportation, plant-based foods tend to have a smaller footprint than animal foods. Then again, one can eat mostly local plants and reduce their impact even further.

Man just burgers for 2 months, kuddos for sticking with that 😅 lack of variety sounds tough

Ok, but check this out. 100% on the real, I lost 110 lbs (265 to 155) eating McDonald's 3 to 4 times a day. Here's how. The mobile APP has d3als; buy 1 get 1 for .29 cents breakfast sandwiches, also buy 1 get 1 .29 cents dbl cheeseburgers. I consume only 3 beverages on the regular. Water, black coffee, or Michelob Ultra. I'd eat 1 brkfst sandwich right away, the other 3 hrs later. Get the dbl chsbrgrs at lunch and eat 1 then, one for dinner. Keep in mind, it's mostly water I drink during the day. So basically, I was chasing calories, and ceilinged out at 1700. Itresulted in another 110 lb loss.

Came to say the same!

If you follow Dave, and his diet journey, this was not a huge surprise.

Every boulder is so easy for him😅

I actually love those kind of cross overs with climbing.

I like McDonald’s

What are you even talking about? Maybe have a look at the last 24 videos on his channel, which are all purely about climbing...

@@masterpropper2485 bro took it serious ;(

Get a job on the television ! You are very good at it !

@@wilfwilliams definitely!

I agree, the way he explains things is very engaging.

are you serious? and what good points did you feel were made?

If you’re vegetarian this tells me you already possess strong food discipline. I think vegans and vegetarians make good carnivores because they’ve already learned to master their food intake. Going from SAD to carnivore is probably even more difficult. Try it. Go carnivore for a month. You will thrive beyond all expectations.

@@justroberto5052 Just came back to watch this video again (I was notified by another reply!) The main points were about how just because you're eating plants doesn't mean animals haven't died to grow them (is killing twenty mice and tens of thousands of insects better than killing a single cow or pig, if done humanely?), and you can't guarantee that the land is being managed sustainably. I'm still vegetarian for what it's worth.

I don't think these are actually good points. Firstly, even grass-fed animals are typically fed crops (hay and silage, if not food crops outright as many are) - so many of the same issues with crop harvesting, tilling, etc, apply to animals. Secondly, if you're going with anything other than pastured ruminants (cows + sheep), there's a huge amount of crops being grown to feed the animals. ie the overwhelming majority of pigs+chickens in the UK are factory farmed and fed soya etc. I can absolutely 100% guarantee you that none of these lives can be termed "humane" treatment. Thirdly, the evidence on animal deaths in crop production is extremely mixed. Intuitively it may make sense that you're killing all the mice, but is it not rather more realistic that the mice might notice the massive farm machinery coming towards them, and temporarily move out of the way? Indeed this is what some evidence shows (I can dig up a paper if you like). Fourthly, Dave generally likes to attribute as many negatives as possible to plant farming and as little as possible to animals. How many insects do cows kill? Finally, it's worth considering how scalable the type of agriculture Dave's favouring here is (pastured ruminants, mainly cows). How many people do you think the UK can feed with pastured cows alone? Bear in mind we are already massively net importers of food, and typically pastured cows are among the most inefficient users of agricultural land, be it arable or not. @@xandermarjoram8622

​@@thenayancat8802exactly this, he definitely stawmanned the benefits to the environment for vegetables, I think just assuming everything is being done in a monoculture with nitrogen leeching crops

adjust when you get new information. Vegetarianism is evolutionarily and metabolically illogical. Theres plenty of research

@@user-ih4vf8xt3e Not really. New studies of what our ancestors did eat thousand of years ago show that they ate primarly vegetables. It´s of course more energy efficient to collect vegetables than hunting animals, at least big animals.

@@TobiasJeppsson no, that's an isolated study, I think i know which one youre referring to. If you read the paper the authors stated it was an usual finding. There are some fossil records showing higher plant consumption but they are rare and likely due to lack of animal foods available. Starvation foods. There's a recent study from 2021 out of Tel-Aviv University about humans being apex predators for 2 million years see if you can find it. Whenever I post the study title my comment gets deleted

@@TobiasJeppsson no. I think I know what study you're referring to and even the authors said it was an unusual finding. They likely weren't able to hunt enough animals.

@@TobiasJeppsson find the 2021 study out of Tel-Aviv uni showing humans have been apex predators for two million years

I have a question for you if you don't mind, what blood type are?

Proficient is an understatement!

Proficient 😂

Very interesting video though. Certainly given me a lot to think about. Thanks Dave

Thanks, yes all filmed and edited by myself.

@@climbermacleod Incredible effort!

Thank you Alan.