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“By shifting from animal, to plant-based meat, we are creating one savory solution that solves four growing issues attributed to livestock production: _human he
by kgwgk 7y ago
“By shifting from animal, to plant-based meat, we are creating one savory solution that solves four growing issues attributed to livestock production: _human health_, climate change, constraints on natural resources and animal welfare.”
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- onezerozeroone 7y agoAnd as might be expected on a forum full of intelligent nitpickers, people can parse and dissect the structure of this sentence to fit any narrative they'd like. For example, it says it's solving issues attributed to production of livestock...it doesn't outright claim the "meat" itself is healthier for you in terms of nutritional content. Drive by any factory farm that stretches for hundreds of acres and the stench alone would convince you that reducing things like that would have a positive impact on human health, both directly and indirectly [runoff of feces and chemicals into the environment, use of antibiotics and hormones, climate change, etc]
- kgwgk 7y agoIt also says it that page: WHY BUILD MEAT DIRECTLY FROM PLANTS? PLANT-BASED MEATS: IMPROVING HUMAN HEALTH ANIMAL-BASED MEATS: 16% INCREASED CANCER RISK 21% INCREASED HEART DISEASE RISK 1. “Risks associated with processed meats.” Archives of Internal Medicine.