The problem is that it's a bad comparison to compare people that eat red meat with people that don't. Lots of people that eat red meat eat it in the form of highly processed low quality meat that's cooked in too much fat and oil, for a start. Lots of them eat far too much of it as well.
Nobody is saying 'a steak a day keeps the doctor away'. But red meat is good for you: it's full of all sorts of essential nutrients that you need. It's tasty, and if it were in any serious way harmful then we wouldn't be eating it.
Indeed, unprocessed meat is better than processed meat. That the story with just about anything, also plants.
The unhealthy aspect of red meat is 1) it contains a lot of stuff you don't want to consume, like cholesterol, hormones, too much saturated fat, recycled drugs and shit and 2) you can get all these good and important nutrients from other food sources that does not contain the bad stuff, and since there is no benefit to consuming these things via red meat compared to say plants, red meat turns out to be a negative to your health instead of a positive.
There is. We don't need to consume them at all, as in, they are not beneficial AT ALL and they affect our bodies in a negative way. Dietary cholesterol contributes to clogged arteries and shit, like saturated fat, giving you type 2 diabetes, strokes and shit down the road, the hormones from meat and especially milk is found to give man-tittils, infertility and all kinds of stuff you probably don't want.
Nobody is saying 'a steak a day keeps the doctor away'. But red meat is good for you: it's full of all sorts of essential nutrients that you need. It's tasty, and if it were in any serious way harmful then we wouldn't be eating it.