Specifically, they studied 154 countries, then recorded how the quantity of their red meat and processed meat consumption corresponded with non-communicable diseases (NCD) associated with that type of food.
Within that same period, the global meat trade fueled increases in attributable deaths by 55 percent and attributable years-of-life-with-a-disability by 71 percent in developed countries, as well as increases of 137 percent and 140 percent in developing countries.