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

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In which context, those disagreeing with this book’s findings should refute them – not merely repudiate – while acknowledging three points. Pushkin described criticism as “the science of discovering beauty and shortcomings in works of art”; but it’s equally the art of discovering beauty and shortcomings in works of science. She added how some companies have come under fire for claiming it is a better diet for the environment, which is not always the case.

The Great Plant-Based Con by Jayne Buxton review — the case

This book was entertaining to read, but it was obviously written by someone who doesn't know much about science, nutrition, climate and or health. Jayne Buxton, author of The Great Plant-Based Con, appeared on the show to argue how diets that exclude animal foods can be damaging to your health.Meat-free proponent John Harvey Kellogg, of ­Kellogg’s Corn Flakes fame, championed the car­bo­hydrate-rich diet that dominates today. Lots of quotes from celebrity vegans, vegetarians and environmental activists that have no relevance. A funny part to me was that most people reading this book will be carnivore dietists and anti vegans and the book says on multiple occasions that it's better to eat vegetarian instead of factory farmed animals or eating meat at a restaurant. Microbes in the gut find both of these things delicious, feeding on them and in turn producing a range of important chemicals the body needs to stay healthy.

The great vegan diet ‘con’ - The Telegraph The great vegan diet ‘con’ - The Telegraph

Professor Ian Givens, director of the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health at the University of Reading, says cow’s milk is nutrient dense and an easy source of vital vitamins. The “con” refers to the gradual conditioning of the public’s thought processes by a constellation of individuals and organisations, “who may well believe in the truth of the views they express, but present things that are far from certain as established fact”. The team examined more than 200 plant-based milk alternative products, comparing the nutritional profile of various substitutes, like almond, oat, and soy milk, amongst each other and with cow’s milk.It seems like review section here got riddled with "I'm very open minded, and btw I'm raving vegan" one star reviews. Second, there is no clear evidence that strict veganism is better for health than vegetarianism, pescatarianism or flexitarianism (a diet where you’re allowed to eat occasional meat or fish).

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She is trying to provide evidence-based information on meat, its production, and how cows and other animals actually promote carbon capture and soil health when raised in a regenerative context. After swaying from a standard diet to low carb to vegetarian, considering vegan, now back to wholefoods diet I can honestly say this one answered my remaining questions. This and several other books and papers that I read convinced me to change to an omnivore (grass-fed and -finished) diet after 30 years as a vegetarian, since it seems most likely that it's better for my health and for the environment. Second, criticism differs from hurling insults such as the following – and worse – directed at Jayne Buxton: “You disgust me spreading false information so confidently. This person has gone to unbelievable lengths to convince herself that meat is good for you and vegetables are harmful to us and the planet.

Had the one star reviewers actually read the book… One could’ve hoped they would have come to the conclusion that the beautiful and simple plant-based stories and conclusions in this space might be fundamentally flawed - fueled as they are by exactly the kind of people and organizations that give away one star ratings on books they have not read while claiming to own the truth and “following the science”. Hundreds of ridiculous arguments, processed vegan food is bad for you therefore a meat eating diet is good. Yet between the entertaining anecdotes he is candid about the emotional toll his work and hedonistic lifestyle has taken: from the pain he felt when his father threw him out aged 18 after he chose fashion over university, to the humiliation of being racially profiled at his workplace by security in July 2020.

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Yet the cumulative effect of the arguments put forward by plant-based food advocates is to condition people into thinking that swapping all animal foods will make a significant difference in our quest to reduce emissions and fight climate change.

The author argued how solely plant-based diets can mean you are deficient in some vitamins and minerals with more chemicals and additives added to processed plant-based foods. Professor Frédéric Leroy, a professor in the field of food science and biotechnology at Vrije University, in Brussels, confirms that the impact on the climate of adopting a vegan diet is very small and becomes even smaller if one also factors in such contextual factors as natural carbon cycles, carbon sequestration and actual nutritional value.