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

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The scientist are world class leaders in their respective fields, and know what they are talking about. Nut milks, vegan cheese, “fake meats” and other vegan substitutes are nutritionally inferior to wholefoods because they are depleted in fibre, macronutrients and bioactive compounds. Lots of quotes from celebrity vegans, vegetarians and environmental activists that have no relevance.

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Jayne Buxton has made the effort to investigate and, in this book, to demolish the case for “plant-based” diets – based, as it is, on weak, misrepresented or often non-existent evidence. When you've read works of Gary Taubes and Nina Teicholz, you'll need to add this to your essential reading list. Artt, a famed scholar and hermit in 7th-century Ireland, has a vision of a bare island in the sea where he is to found a monastery. Dear vegans, your bananas, avocados, plant based milks are often coming with way higher cost of farming and climate change (transport, packaging, chemicals to slow down spoil) than local produce.Lost of people will disagree with this as they are caught in the old paradigm of 'fat is bad' and 'cholesterol is bad' and 'carbs are good'. Simon Heffer’s editing has been as adroit as the task is monumental, and his stamina as bottomless as his subject’s. These are the things that have undergone such extensive change that you wouldn’t be able to reproduce them at home. Absolute nonsense, how sad this person has gone to so much trouble to misinform and undo good work by those she mentions such as Greta Thunberg.

The Great Plant-Based Con by Laurel Lefkow | Hachette UK The Great Plant-Based Con by Laurel Lefkow | Hachette UK

I'm an open minded person so I'll try anything that goes against what I currently believe and challenges me, but it has to be serious. In recent years more exposure has been given to the meat and dairy industries to how harmful they are to the environment, including increasing carbon emissions. Why did we choose a cow out of all animals to give hormones to make them produce milk for us all the time to drink.A diet expert has come under fire from viewers of ITV's The Morning for claiming vegan diets are 'a con' on the show. However the ASA took issue with a number of figures used in the company’s advertising, as well as the claim that cutting dairy and meat from our diets was the single biggest lifestyle change people could make to reduce their environmental impact. 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.

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I wish it had some graphs (I retain information better in visual format) especially in last chapters when she was talking about the connections between some individuals, church, corporations, government committees and guidelines that have been imposed on general public. 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.

Part one includes an account of how Ancel Keys’s chilly eminence championed the now-discredited diet-heart hypothesis, stoking the public’s fear of cholesterol and healthy fat. 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.

The Great Plant-Based Con: Why eating a plants - Hachette The Great Plant-Based Con: Why eating a plants - Hachette

If I were designing policies to make it affordable to eat properly, I would tax the hell out of the processed stuff and the empty carbs and the junk and subsidise the regeneratively farmed eggs and meat, and well-raised fish. It’s a kind of virtue signalling ­get-out clause that stops people from having to think about making more significant changes to their lifestyles. Jayne Buxton's compelling read THE PLANT-BASED CON challenges the 'plant-biased' narrative sweeping across the globe and embedding itself into the very fabric of our society. No doubt about it, veganism is NOT the answer, it has too many deficiencies in nutrients which are just not bio-available.The comparison between the amount of CO2 saved by giving up all animal foods as compared to that saved by forgoing a single flight makes a mockery of publicity stunts such as that of Richard Branson, CEO of Virgin Airlines, who declared that beef would no longer be served on Virgin flights. I also swallowed apparently sound claims that farming for meat had to be curtailed to stop global warming. For the average person in the UK, 56% of their diet comes from these ultra-processed foods, which are known to damage people’s physical and mental health, and our environment. Alongside these trends live the regular and more ethical health-conscious messages of dry January and Veganuary, both of which have grown in popularity and have a much cleaner public image.