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

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Meat-free proponent John Harvey Kellogg, of ­Kellogg’s Corn Flakes fame, championed the car­bo­hydrate-rich diet that dominates today. The Great Plant-Based Con by Buxton, A Visible Man by Enninful, Henry “Chips” Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3) edited by Heffer, and Haven by Donoghue. are well known contrarians (keto and carnivore diet acolytes, some even And if you disagree with her conclusion I really suggest you read this book from cover to cover before making any judgements. She thinks we should all be grateful to animal rights activists, vegans and vegetarians for highlighting these issues.

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Even if we take the highest estimate, the CO2 cost of a serving of beef is utterly dwarfed by the per-person CO2 cost of the flight (1. 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. She laments “the demonisation of meat and dairy”, but in attacking those who raise concerns she further stokes the culture war she professes to despise. Many studies have demonstrated how meat and dairy contributes to carbon emissions – accounting for 14. These agencies are nothing more than political or self aggrandising, and the media rarely reports accurately.

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. She also shines a light on the seedy underbelly of the plant-based world, and dives into their motives, which are mostly monetary, but there are also some cultish religious aspects to it as well. This book will only make people feel better in the way certain 'scientist's' made smokers feel better by arguing science shows smoking is not harmful and more recently the scientists who bend truths and ignore facts to claim global warming is not real.

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Stop following the bullshit advise dished out by the government agencies, the AHA and Diabetes foundations and the media. In 2018 Fettke was cleared of all charges and his ordeal resonates with that of Prof Tim Noakes – a world leader in sports science and human nutrition – who, between 2015 and 2017, was tried for professional misconduct by the Health Professions Council of South Africa after a dietitian reported him for tweeting the benefits of low-carbohydrate/high-fat diets.

But while her book myth-busts distortions in pro-plant-based food science, it does not apply the same rigour to its own biases.

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Next January (well, there’s nothing to stop you from starting this February, actually), instead of eating artificial meat substitutes and vegan cupcakes for a month, why not add a new type of plant to your diet every day? Enninful brings intimacy to his chronological narrative by beginning with his loving but chaotic early childhood in Ghana and his parents’ decision to relocate to London. Enninful’s vulnerability is moving, and, in an industry that determines what is considered beautiful, his book leaves the reader reassured by his being at the helm.And Buxton further undermines the f lawed evidence-base purporting to demonstrate a link between red meat consumption and cancer; explains how the five-a-day fruit and veg slogan was a marketing ploy; and highlights the nutritional deficiencies of the EAT-Lancet, Eatwell Guide, and other “variations on a plant-based theme”. Big business supports the whole vegetarian/vegan scam because they manufacture highly-processed foods based mainly on carbohydrates and stand to profit enormously from imitation meat products such as veggie burgers.