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'Meat influencers' on social media promote carnivore diets

The team from the Endless Thread podcast looks into the social media trend of carnivore diets. These all-red-meat diets are encouraged by so-called meat influencers, but mainstream science doesn’t support the elimination of vegetables from diets.

Dean Russell and Ben Brock Johnson report.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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