If it makes you feel better, I too enjoyed a heaping size of red meat for dinner and will replicate that again...
Regarding your opening sentence, I recommend you reread my post as by doing so you will see I never said years of ag are in error nor did I say banning flesh meat during Lent is a mistake. However, if you think eating today's version of bread poses no health risk, have at it...this isn't the same bread our Lord multiplied but I am hoping you know that already. Foul preservatives were not a thing back in the day, hence why bread is not a healthy thing to eat anymore.
Finally, my closing statement in my post recommended that one do their own research and to not take what I said as being the final word. In other words, you-do-you.
God Bless!
Glad we agree in general. The goal was to elicit a corrective reply since, as we both know, this is the sort of topic that gets oversimplified and entrenched in daily real-life application. As with the penitential purpose of Lent, there's the risk of missing the forest for the trees.
Re bread, it's one more example of how miserably deracinated the relationship to food has become, in which we've been reduced to dumb gullets and passive-aggressive nodes of market consumption. Ways to remediate: make semolina bread while exercising patience and observation, since this demanding sort of dough doesn't behave like other doughs. Make
vollkornbrot, several days of watchfully tending to multiple steps from start to finish. More simply, make old-style batch bread with fresh unskimmed milk, itself an effective preservative and dough conditioner.
OK, forget bread for the carnivores. Instead, do some grounded research (assuming zones north of the equator) about Easter eggs and Paschal lambs, also monastic aquaculture and the medieval trade in stockfish.
Without this re-racination and refocus on Creation, Lenten rules can seem like arbitrary abstractions and just-so stories waiting to be ridiculed and dismissed by cynical modernists. Ironic that atheistic rational materialism refuses to consider the true reasons for this material we're given by Divine Providence. Their own willful loss.