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

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She also questions whether a plant-based diet is cruelty-free, using the example of John Chester, a Californian farmer who was the subject of the 2018 documentary The Biggest Little Farm, who explained he has to kill 40,000 gophers a year to protect his 250-acre avocado crop. The Great Plant-Based Con is a fine piece of evidence-based work, challenging the ideology that a global shift to a plant-based diet benefits humans, animals, and the planet. After swaying from a standard diet to low carb to vegetarian, considering vegan, now back to wholefoods diet I can honestly say this one answered my remaining questions.

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tonnes), the benefit of switching to a plant-based diet looks relatively inconsequential, particularly when the negative impact on nutrition and health are factored in. Here Channon, the American-born Conservative MP and society libertine, plays out the last phase of his rich life. The scientist are world class leaders in their respective fields, and know what they are talking about. A diet expert has come under fire from viewers of ITV's The Morning for claiming vegan diets are 'a con' on the show.The problem identified by Mitloehner goes some way towards explaining why estimates for the carbon costs per kilo of meat vary so widely. JayHBaker94 added: "I'm sick and tired of all the preaching of others telling other what they should eat.

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In the UK, meanwhile, as wheat yields doubled between 1970 and today, the number of farmland birds decreased by 54 per cent, according to the National Biodiversity Network. Second, it fuels the perception that all plant-based foods are healthier than all animal-derived ones, which is not always true.Rice, coconut, soya, almond, cashew, oat and even potatoes (available in Waitrose) jostle for space on our supermarket shelves, in our fridges at home and on our cereal. Some vegan foods such as avocado have a high carbon footprint therefore meat diets are more environmently friendly.