The Great Plant-Based Con: Why eating a plants-only diet won't improve your health or save the planet

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Read the book, use critical thinking skills (put emotions on side) and make your own opinion. Question everything and do your own research. See what conclusions you reach. But what if the pervasive message that the plant-based diet will improve our health and save the planet is misleading – or even false? What if removing animal foods from our diet is a serious threat to human health, and a red herring in the fight against climate change. However, some people agreed with the diet author. @DaniJ94 wrote: "Finally someone on This Morning who speaks sense, I like her." @KatieMagnet added: "What a brilliant interview #ThisMorning Plant based con." Cow’s milk was also richest in iodine, b12 and b2. There wasn’t much difference in calcium, which Givens puts down to plant-based milks being fortified. Lumping the UK in with global figures for countries with vastly different farming practices means that some of the good news gets lost. Beef cattle and sheep in the UK account for just 5.7 per cent of all UK emissions, but this is reduced to 3.7 per cent if carbon sequestration (storing of carbon in the soil) is taken into account. While she says it’s a cliché, “It really is the how, not the cow.”

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But here's the thing: it ain't just a rant. Buxton's done her homework. She's got facts, figures, and a whole lotta passion behind her arguments. Whether you agree with her or not, you've got to admit, she's put in the work. There have been several critiques of the WHO report on cancer (2015), which is responsible for the notion that eating processed meat causes cancer, including one from a member of the committee that produced the report, who felt that it was not evidence based. This Morning is on ITV1 weekdays from 10am and available to stream on ITVHub Read More Related ArticlesI may have been able to struggle through the last six hours of a nineteen hour book, despite the problems noted above, but the narrator is Speaking to presenters Holly and Phil, she said: “They’re being marketed as quality healthy alternatives when they’re not.” She added how some companies have come under fire for claiming it is a better diet for the environment, which is not always the case.

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Jayne cited how the soil crisis the planet faced - of which there has been a loss of 84 per cent of topsoil - would be catastrophic for food production. If we cannot grow food this will mean a loss of life, she added. The claims in a BBC Horizon programme that aired in early 2021 were (according to the online material provided by the scientist who sourced the data for the programme) based on yet another emissions-per-kilo-of-beef number – 25kg of CO2e. Giving up dairy milk has become the ultimate act of virtue signalling, says Buxton. But if our food footprint is a maximum of 16 per cent of the total individual footprint and milk is a tiny proportion of that, the reduction of GHGs is minuscule. “It allows individuals to keep on with their other carbon-generating habits in a guilt-free way.” Who is pushing the message?

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Now, if you're one of those die-hard vegans, this book might get your almond milk boiling. And if you're a meat-lover, it might just be your new bible. But wherever you stand, it's a conversation starter for sure. For me, I've come across a lot of vegetarians. My current partner is one. He eats chocolate a lot whereas I just don't crave for it. His diet was fully based on carbs. Full English breakfast with lots of noodles for dinner. And I have gotten upset about the plate not having any greens. It's also like I'm not that fit physically but my bones are strong, my whole body has a lot of power and I have a lot of energy. Buxton again tells a similar example of American shopping trolley.While vegans can have a healthy diet without dairy, he says they have to work harder to get vitamins such as B12 from synthetic sources. He flags up one worrying demographic, adolescent women, whom studies show to have very low intakes of calcium, magnesium iodine and iron, consistent with following a vegan diet. “One of the big issues in that period of life is bone development.” Medicine and nutrition are making a turn for the better, and this book is a fantastic starting point. Absolute nonsense, not even worth arguing with in the same way it is pointless to argue with racists or those with extreme political or extreme religious views. This person has gone to unbelievable lengths to convince herself that meat is good for you and vegetables are harmful to us and the planet. Hundreds of ridiculous arguments, processed vegan food is bad for you therefore a meat eating diet is good. Some vegan foods such as avocado have a high carbon footprint therefore meat diets are more environmently friendly. Eating too much meat doesn't cause cancer and actually protects you from diseases. Soya beans are bad, she fails to mention that 95% of the soya crop goes to the feed animals for meat production. She says vegetarians and vegans are more likely to be depressed, self harm and be infertile. Lots of quotes from celebrity vegans, vegetarians and environmental activists that have no relevance. A whole chapter about the dangers of vegetables, they can be dangerous to our health because we could overdose with vitamins. This chapter is called The Bad Guys Lurking in your Plant Based Diet. Talks about the dangers of wholemeal bread.... While dairy isn’t vital to good health, concerns have been raised about how switching to a plant-based diet makes it harder to reach the required levels of nutrients and vitamins

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The problem identified by Mitloehner goes some way towards explaining why estimates for the carbon costs per kilo of meat vary so widely. Sources I consulted gave estimates ranging from -4kg to +400kg of CO2 per kilo.Last year the Advertising Standards Authority banned certain adverts by the Swedish company Oatly which it found had misled consumers over the environmental benefits of switching from dairy to plant-based milk. A calm, incisive dissection of veganism's salvationist claim to protect human health and the planet - Country Life While she’s become known as “the Meat Lady” to friends and family, they have been supportive. Her children, 30, 27 and 23, are part of the generation who are lobbied about being plant-based every day. “I’m really proud of how they ask questions and aren’t set in how they think. “The zeitgeist is such that young ­people are frightened to stand up and say something different.” Can veganism save the planet?