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Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The new food pyramid is just as influenced by lobbyist as the previous one. Only this time it’s the life stock industry.
Plus anti-woke MAGA wants to distance itself from vegans as much as possible.
But also, lean, fresh meat isn’t that bad. It does have a lot of protein, with really balanced amino-acids. You don’t have to carefully combine grains and legumes, in order to not miss out on essential nutrients.
Meat also has a lot of bioavailable iron and vitamin B12. Both are important and usually insufficient in a vegan diet.
If you count fish as meat, it also has bioavailable Omega-3. Especially fatty ocean-fishes like salmon. If you don’t eat fish, you either have to eat microalgae-oil or severely reduce your omega-6 consumption (no chips for you. They are fried in sunflower oil).
In contrast to fresh meat, most processed meats are really bad:
- Cured meat has sodium nitrate. That’s a known carcinogen.
- Smoked meat has smoke particles. That’s another known carcinogen.
- Charred meat has charring. Another carcinogen.
And you also shouldn’t eat a lot of fat from land animals. It has a lot of saturated fats which, you guessed it, cause cancer.