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Meet the Men Who Eat Meat (and Only Meat)

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With the help of Joe Rogan, a social media trend with staying power emerged from a 2018 book, "The Carnivore Diet."

Rib-eye steak "is viscerally and primitively satisfying to me," said Dr. Shawn Baker, who was instrumental in the online rise of so-called "meatfluencers."Credit...Kyle Johnson for The New York Times

Published April 30, 2024Updated May 2, 2024

"Girl dinner" this is not.

In a social media trend that won't stop, ravenous meat eaters, mostly men, show themselves chomping on rib-eye steaks, bacon and innards.

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In a recent online video, a popular TikTok user who posts as @carnivoreray unveiled a new snack recipe. After sliding sheet pans packed with fatty bacon strips into the oven, he melted two sticks of butter from grass-fed cows. Once the bacon was crisp, he poured the melted butter into the sheet pans. Then he popped the concoction into the freezer.

The next morning, the influencer bit into the frozen treat while filming himself for his roughly 170,000 TikTok followers. "This tastes like candy," he said. (The person behind the account did not reply to requests for comment.)

The video belongs to an enduring social media genre quarterbacked largely by muscular fellows who claim that a meat-heavy diet is the key to mental and physical well-being.

A stricter version of high-fat, low-carb regimens like the Atkins diet and keto, the carnivore diet consists of meat, seafood and eggs — period. While some add dairy and a little fruit to the mix, the strictest proponents adhere to what they call B.B.B.E — that is, beef, bacon, butter and eggs.

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