Regardless, as much as I like RFK jr, I will still be a lacto vegetarian, like I have for 56 years. And I raised 3 vegetarian kids who were highly competitive athletes and scholars.
I’ve been living a plant based diet for many years. I am against fake meat. There’s so many amazing recipes that can be made with beans. A black bean burger is the best. Can be used for meatballs tooMy favorite recipe book is “from chronically ill to vibrantly well” by Judy de Lorenzo. She has a great website too. It’s called “a life well planted”.
I’ll have a veggie burger or veggie dog, if someone makes it for me at their BBQ. Or if I’m in Chicago. Otherwise I’m not interested. They’re mediocre at best and only used as a vehicle for mustard and relish and a side dish for French fries
The worst evening I ever spent was at a vegan’s apartment in NYC. She had two dachshunds that she proudly proclaimed as vegans, too. We were halfway through the “plant-based” dinner she made while the dogs stared at their own “plant-based” bowls. Then, the smell of bacon being cooked in the apartment next door wafted through the vent. Those dogs went berserk, howling. She couldn’t talk them down and frankly I was about to howl with them. And the most annoying t-shirt I ever saw was “Vegans for Abortion.” What? This woman was aborting until she could have a plant-based baby?
Don’t need any animals in diet. No processed foods either. To each their own. But don’t subsidize processed foods and health care for preventable conditions.
I’ve been living a plant based diet for many years. I am against fake meat. There’s so many amazing recipes that can be made with beans. A black bean burger is the best. Can be used for meatballs tooMy favorite recipe book is “from chronically ill to vibrantly well” by Judy de Lorenzo. She has a great website too. It’s called “a life well planted”.
"Plant-based Meat", kind of like "Water-based Rocks". If we could just get "Meat-based Plants", like "impossible broccoli" then life would be grand. Just stop. Human are omnivores, because we weren't good enough predators to just live off of meat like lions and wolves. Plants bought us survival in lean times. As further proof, try to understand why your eyes aren't located on the side of your heads.
Great article outlining what is bad about UPF simulated meat. Human’s have being living off whole nutrient dense foods for thousands of years. Thinking a chemical engineer turned chef can make healthy substitutes is just wrong. The article could be better if it disappeared the untrue dogma about what is bad with a good regenerative farmed animal protein.
This is interesting. HOWEVER, while concern about esoteric products from the shelves of Whole Foods, like plant-based "meat," vitamin supplements, and the special needs of vegans, are valid, these are concerns of the "choir" (educated, upper-middle class folks and their wanna-be's), not the congregation. The congregation is much of the rest of the country (who voted, BTW, for Trump), who eat take-out or microwavable crap in their cars on their way to and from work or schlepping kids along endless exurban roads. They never learned about food themselves (broken homes, no home ec class, lots of contrary advertising) and are obese (which in the USA tracks education.) Spending time and ink on the concerns of people like RFK Jr, who are fixated on what goes into their mouths, just gives Democrats another page from their old playbook, about Kennedy being an elitist who doesn't know how real people live. I suggest that MAHA spend more time copying Martha Stewart and her ilk, showing people how easy and tasty it is to eat simply; you don't need time or knowledge to grab an apple and a few slices of cheese (and maybe a slice of bread, God forgive us) instead of a frozen burrito. Get the food industry out of food altogether and go back to the farmers (and while I'm at it, get the sports club and athletic industries out of exercise altogether and go back to parks and back yards).
Home-made alt-meats are nutritious options. Seitan, made from washing the protein glutens out of wheat flour can easily be done at home and lends itself to all sorts of delicious alt-meat dishes. Buddhist monks have been eating this for centuries. Tempeh, myco-fermented soybeans, discovered in Indonesia, is another great high protein alt-meat food. I cook a variety of high protein meals with both.
Most meat in America is factory farmed in Brazil and NOT grass fed as inferred in this article. Yes the elites can get grass fed and pontificate how bad the others are but the lie is making it a binary option. The best choice is avoiding all of the above and choosing a healthy plant based diet of mostly organic and unprocessed fruits vegetables beans nuts seeds legumes and green leafy salads. This kind of diet is not only health promoting but also beneficial for the environment. Come on, dead factory farmed animals are not a good choice. This is to MAHA what ICE is to MAGA and sadly is spiritually corrupt. I Choose MASA, Make America Sane Again!
You neglect to mention that there is nothing healthy about animals raised in misery and cruelty, who never see the light of day, are pumped with gmo corn, antibiotics, steroids and now mRNA vaccines. Plant based products substituting meat are not unhealthy without the chemical additives and they are cruelty free for those that care about the abomination occurring on factory farms. We need to encourage more organic products. This mad rush to turn the world into carnivores is not going to end well. This planet cannot withstand grazing meat for billions of people, even if the plebs could afford the grass fed meat of the oligarchs. It’s just not going to happen, except for the rich. The rain forest is already being decimated for factory farms to raise animals in intense confinement, which requires a fraction of the land of free range animals. MAHA will be destroyed returning people to a chemical diet of cruelty.
I agree 100% about the horrendous CAFOs. I only purchase grass-fed, pasture-raised, free-range meat, eggs, milk, etc., which is perfectly affordable on our middle-class income. Same with organic produce. It just requires prioritizing line items in our budget; namely, paying more for healthy food now, so we don't pay the exorbitant medical costs (both financial and psychological) of illness and disease later.
Too many ignorant city dwellers who know nothing about where food comes from, except for what the see on TV and the internet. Most have never left the city, let alone travel through the countryside and see how the other half lives.
Middle class the world and country are not, not even close. Besides, even if the masses could afford the elite cuts, the planet can not. RFK would do far better just getting the chemicals out of our food, both plant and animal. Then we can all eat cake, even the grass fed carnivore cake that RFK showed off.
There are a few plant based “meats” that are actually good both in tasty and nutritional value. Gardein chicken strips are a staple in our organic/ vegan household and a small company out of Chicago named Upton’s Naturals makes a seitan which is basically a sausage that tastes awesome. Ingredients are water, vital wheat gluten, soy sauce, apple cider vinegar, garlic, guajillo, oregano, sea salt, onion, cumin, black pepper.
This is excellent information. I never trusted these products and the whole endeavor seems ghoulish.
Regardless, as much as I like RFK jr, I will still be a lacto vegetarian, like I have for 56 years. And I raised 3 vegetarian kids who were highly competitive athletes and scholars.
I’ve been living a plant based diet for many years. I am against fake meat. There’s so many amazing recipes that can be made with beans. A black bean burger is the best. Can be used for meatballs tooMy favorite recipe book is “from chronically ill to vibrantly well” by Judy de Lorenzo. She has a great website too. It’s called “a life well planted”.
No way Jose !!!
Wheres the beef? But you can forget the pork!!
I’ll have a veggie burger or veggie dog, if someone makes it for me at their BBQ. Or if I’m in Chicago. Otherwise I’m not interested. They’re mediocre at best and only used as a vehicle for mustard and relish and a side dish for French fries
I'm sure the phony meet is cheaper??? Yuck!!! Time to visit the butcher shop!
The worst evening I ever spent was at a vegan’s apartment in NYC. She had two dachshunds that she proudly proclaimed as vegans, too. We were halfway through the “plant-based” dinner she made while the dogs stared at their own “plant-based” bowls. Then, the smell of bacon being cooked in the apartment next door wafted through the vent. Those dogs went berserk, howling. She couldn’t talk them down and frankly I was about to howl with them. And the most annoying t-shirt I ever saw was “Vegans for Abortion.” What? This woman was aborting until she could have a plant-based baby?
Hipocracy at its best!
Don’t need any animals in diet. No processed foods either. To each their own. But don’t subsidize processed foods and health care for preventable conditions.
I’ve been living a plant based diet for many years. I am against fake meat. There’s so many amazing recipes that can be made with beans. A black bean burger is the best. Can be used for meatballs tooMy favorite recipe book is “from chronically ill to vibrantly well” by Judy de Lorenzo. She has a great website too. It’s called “a life well planted”.
"Plant-based Meat", kind of like "Water-based Rocks". If we could just get "Meat-based Plants", like "impossible broccoli" then life would be grand. Just stop. Human are omnivores, because we weren't good enough predators to just live off of meat like lions and wolves. Plants bought us survival in lean times. As further proof, try to understand why your eyes aren't located on the side of your heads.
This is great information, and I find that the fake meat is disgusting and I would never eat it.
Great article outlining what is bad about UPF simulated meat. Human’s have being living off whole nutrient dense foods for thousands of years. Thinking a chemical engineer turned chef can make healthy substitutes is just wrong. The article could be better if it disappeared the untrue dogma about what is bad with a good regenerative farmed animal protein.
This is interesting. HOWEVER, while concern about esoteric products from the shelves of Whole Foods, like plant-based "meat," vitamin supplements, and the special needs of vegans, are valid, these are concerns of the "choir" (educated, upper-middle class folks and their wanna-be's), not the congregation. The congregation is much of the rest of the country (who voted, BTW, for Trump), who eat take-out or microwavable crap in their cars on their way to and from work or schlepping kids along endless exurban roads. They never learned about food themselves (broken homes, no home ec class, lots of contrary advertising) and are obese (which in the USA tracks education.) Spending time and ink on the concerns of people like RFK Jr, who are fixated on what goes into their mouths, just gives Democrats another page from their old playbook, about Kennedy being an elitist who doesn't know how real people live. I suggest that MAHA spend more time copying Martha Stewart and her ilk, showing people how easy and tasty it is to eat simply; you don't need time or knowledge to grab an apple and a few slices of cheese (and maybe a slice of bread, God forgive us) instead of a frozen burrito. Get the food industry out of food altogether and go back to the farmers (and while I'm at it, get the sports club and athletic industries out of exercise altogether and go back to parks and back yards).
Home-made alt-meats are nutritious options. Seitan, made from washing the protein glutens out of wheat flour can easily be done at home and lends itself to all sorts of delicious alt-meat dishes. Buddhist monks have been eating this for centuries. Tempeh, myco-fermented soybeans, discovered in Indonesia, is another great high protein alt-meat food. I cook a variety of high protein meals with both.
Most meat in America is factory farmed in Brazil and NOT grass fed as inferred in this article. Yes the elites can get grass fed and pontificate how bad the others are but the lie is making it a binary option. The best choice is avoiding all of the above and choosing a healthy plant based diet of mostly organic and unprocessed fruits vegetables beans nuts seeds legumes and green leafy salads. This kind of diet is not only health promoting but also beneficial for the environment. Come on, dead factory farmed animals are not a good choice. This is to MAHA what ICE is to MAGA and sadly is spiritually corrupt. I Choose MASA, Make America Sane Again!
thank YOU a million times a million !
You neglect to mention that there is nothing healthy about animals raised in misery and cruelty, who never see the light of day, are pumped with gmo corn, antibiotics, steroids and now mRNA vaccines. Plant based products substituting meat are not unhealthy without the chemical additives and they are cruelty free for those that care about the abomination occurring on factory farms. We need to encourage more organic products. This mad rush to turn the world into carnivores is not going to end well. This planet cannot withstand grazing meat for billions of people, even if the plebs could afford the grass fed meat of the oligarchs. It’s just not going to happen, except for the rich. The rain forest is already being decimated for factory farms to raise animals in intense confinement, which requires a fraction of the land of free range animals. MAHA will be destroyed returning people to a chemical diet of cruelty.
Thanks for speaking the truth. It is so unfortunate that MAHA is destroying itself by promoting the beef and dairy and pork and poultry industries!
I agree 100% about the horrendous CAFOs. I only purchase grass-fed, pasture-raised, free-range meat, eggs, milk, etc., which is perfectly affordable on our middle-class income. Same with organic produce. It just requires prioritizing line items in our budget; namely, paying more for healthy food now, so we don't pay the exorbitant medical costs (both financial and psychological) of illness and disease later.
Also, when eating healthy, clean foods, we tend to eat much less and the cravings for in-between snacks are fewer and far between.
Not all meat comes from "factory farms."
You must be a city dweller. Get out and see the rest of the country where people are living very healthy lives, and the animals, too!
my family comes from Wyoming cattle country. I know how the other side lives. Unfortunately that is a fraction of the World’s population.
Too many ignorant city dwellers who know nothing about where food comes from, except for what the see on TV and the internet. Most have never left the city, let alone travel through the countryside and see how the other half lives.
I have lived both sides, and the cities suck!
Middle class the world and country are not, not even close. Besides, even if the masses could afford the elite cuts, the planet can not. RFK would do far better just getting the chemicals out of our food, both plant and animal. Then we can all eat cake, even the grass fed carnivore cake that RFK showed off.
There are a few plant based “meats” that are actually good both in tasty and nutritional value. Gardein chicken strips are a staple in our organic/ vegan household and a small company out of Chicago named Upton’s Naturals makes a seitan which is basically a sausage that tastes awesome. Ingredients are water, vital wheat gluten, soy sauce, apple cider vinegar, garlic, guajillo, oregano, sea salt, onion, cumin, black pepper.
yes and we need more like this. MAHA would do best by removing chemicals, wherever they are in the food and leave the food pyramid to us. Most foods
coming from the earth have
benefit. As granny says, all things in moderation.
Plant-based Meat is an oxymoron!
its a marketing tool and meat companies have actually tried to sue on this account. coconuts have meat too;))