If one is observing Ash Wednesday, the answer is no.Ash Wednesday, observed forty days (not counting Sundays) before Easter, and one day after Shrove Tuesday or Fat Tuesday (the end of Carnival or Mardi Gras season), marks the beginning of Lent. The Catholic law of abstinence dictates that Catholics aged 14 and older refrain from meat on Fridays altogether, and on Ash Wednesday.Additionally,
Catholics aged 18 to 59 should fast on both Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, defined by the Roman Catholic church as consuming only one full meal, or two smaller meals.
A study released Monday greenlighting the consumption of processed and red meat has much of the medical community seeing red.A bad diet is the No. 1 cause of poor health,
and increasingly the bony finger of accusation has been pointed at this particular part of our plate. This year, the EAT-Lancet Commission report, the special report on climate change and land by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change and a British Medical Journal study associated increases in red meat consumption with mortality in American men and women. Meanwhile, plant-based protein companies
such as Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat have begun to win consumers’ affections.In the midst of this, a new study suggests quite the opposite.
