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Any manufactured food will be less healthy than natural foods. I'm rather suspicious of this article. It smells a bit like a meat industry funded piece. Vegan
by blunte 6y ago
Any manufactured food will be less healthy than natural foods.
I'm rather suspicious of this article. It smells a bit like a meat industry funded piece.
Vegans I know are not trying to replace meat with manufactured substitutes. They eat while foods instead, including spinach and kale, which has a lot of iron.
- ggm 6y agoDid you miss the part where they pointed out vegetable sources are often less bio available and less well absorbed? The article is not funded by the meat industry the BBC is not PBS. The article is talking about a culture where junk food is ubiquitous (the UK) and where vegan junk food is being touted as a healthy alternative.
- lucidguppy 6y agoIf you think that the BBC is not affected by the beef/lamb industry in the UK - I have a bridge to sell you. The British media pushes gastric bypass surgery before pushing plants.
- randomchars 6y ago> Vegans I know are not trying to replace meat with manufactured substitutes "Meat replacements" are rising in popularity, and I'd consider those one of the worst things you can put in your body, just look at the ingredient list[1] - Soy-protein concentrate - Coconut oil - Sunflower oil - Natural flavors - Potato protein - Methylcellulose - Yeast extract - Cultured dextrose - Food starch, modified - Soy leghemoglobin - Salt - Soy-protein isolate - Mixed tocopherols (vitamin E) - Zinc gluconate - Thiamine hydrochloride (Vitamin B1) - Sodium ascorbate (vitamin C) - Niacin - Pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6) - Riboflavin (vitamin B2) - Vitamin B12 It's also not more convenient than real food: I can cook a steak in less than 10 minutes, and it will be way more healthy than this industrial sludge. [1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-in-impossible-burger-ingredient-list-2019-5 https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-in-impossible-burger...
- Tade0 6y agoI'm looking at the list and see nothing out of the ordinary. Which one of those are unhealthy?
- randomchars 6y agoI'd like to reverse the question; which one of those are healthy, especially compared to the real version?
- selectodude 6y agoThey don’t belch hundreds of pounds of methane into the air, which helps.
- randomchars 6y agoWell, that's definitely correct. But they do require soy, GMO soy to be precise, and monocropping is harmful, while on the other hand, cows are grazing animals, which can have a dramatic effect on the fertility of the land. That aside, I don't believe there's a study about the environmental effect of the manufacturing of this sludge vs eating real foods. And as an aside, the emission from cows is not as simple as it sounds: https://www.farmcarbontoolkit.org.uk/news/methane-myth-why-cows-arent-responsible-climate-change https://www.farmcarbontoolkit.org.uk/news/methane-myth-why-c...
- maps7 6y agoAll of them are healthy. Although you may want to define healthy.
- phonypc 6y agoWell, all the vitamins and minerals, which are also in real meat, for starters.
- randomchars 6y agoAnd GMO soy leghemoglobin, plus soy leghemoglobin soy protein.
- bjoli 6y agoYou should probably not rely on foods that contains a lot of iron-absorbtion-ingmhibiting things (spinach, parsley) to get enough iron. Beans are better in just about every way. Parsley would have been a wonder food if not for all the oxalic acid (is that the correct english name?) and other anti-nutrients. Spinach is better, but not by that much. Beans and whole-grain grains are where it's at!
- jamil7 6y agoBeans are amazing, especially if you invest in a pressure cooker. You can keep a cheap, healthy protein supply in you cupboard for months. We order black, red kidney and pinto beans and rice in bulk. You can then just buy fresh produce as you need.
- bsdz 6y ago> I'm rather suspicious of this article. It smells a bit like a meat industry funded piece. The authors of these BBC articles (Worklife/Future) are quite independent. They are typically asked to research and write about a specific topic. Some times they can't help but bring their own bias to the discussion.