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Fibre is not an essential nutrient, there is no need to consume it - especially if your not eating carbohydrates and producing your own short chain fatty acids.
Have fun with your eventual colon cancer.
We are well aware of this claim, and since we are practicing the diet to regain our health obviously the claim that meat causes colon cancer is of concern.
Thankfully, it turns out that the claim itself is unscientific: https://www.diagnosisdiet.com/full-article/meat-and-cancer
Do you have non-observational data to support this position that the lack of fibre is casual for colon cancer?
Fibre is much more important than protein but meat farmers want you to believe otherwise.
If you don’t eat fiber you’re going to have some serious gut issues later in life. Lack of fiber has been linked to colon and other gut cancers.
Also i prefer to not be backed up for two weeks waiting to poop from lack of fiber but you do you.
You'll be surprised to learn that eating no fiber at all completely relieved idiopathic constipation in a study done on the topic: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3435786/
Observational study, obviously, and correlation isn't causation. But it's easy enough to experiment on yourself. I have no constipation and consume no fibre in my diet.