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In regard to the ratio of animal protein to vegetable intake, you will be consuming mostly vegetables by volume and mostly fat by calories. This is because vegetables are satiating but do not provide very many calories. Fats will make up the majority of calories consumed throughout the day, but when looking at a plate, most of the real estate will
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DAMIAN CARRINGTON • Plant Based Meats Do More to Address Climate Change Than Green Buildings or Zero-Emission Cars
also need less grain to produce them, reducing the pressure on food crops and the use of fertilizers too. And it’s a huge boon for animal welfare whenever fewer livestock
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Joel Kahn • Food is Medicine (How to Go Plant-Based) – Dr. Joel Kahn on TRAINED, Hosted by Ryan Flaherty
People don’t adopt their ideologies at random, or by soaking up whatever ideas are around them. People whose genes gave them brains that get a special pleasure from novelty, variety, and diversity, while simultaneously being less sensitive to signs of threat, are predisposed (but not predestined) to become liberals. They tend to develop certain “ch
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
This might sound like science fiction, but the world’s first clean hamburger was grown from cells—and then eaten—in 2013. It cost $330,000. Four years of research and development brought the price down to $11 per unit, and within another decade industrially produced clean meat is expected to be cheaper than slaughtered meat. This technological deve
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
As Tizard points out, we’re constantly moving genes around the world, usually in the form of entire genomes. This is how chestnut blight arrived in North America in the first place; it was carried in on Asian chestnut trees, imported from Japan. If we can correct for our earlier tragic mistake by shifting just one more gene around, don’t we owe it
... See moreElizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
The other Blue Zones also featured a predominantly plant-based diet. None of them were fully vegan or vegetarian, but meat and dairy and eggs were luxuries enjoyed regularly only by the wealthy, and just on festivals and special occasions by everyone else.