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It’s Tuesday, December 4.

One in five kids in the UK don’t know where bacon comes from, according to a Linking Environment and Farming study. Big food companies have a vested interest in food misinformation. They’re pretty good at it, too.

It’s called the meat counter—not the cow and pig counter—for a reason. No one wants to see animals get killed, let alone read about it before they eat. Big food companies make sure that when it comes to meat, bacon is bacon, not pig. Steak is steak, not cow, and a lot of money goes into keeping it that way.

Read the full reportBig Food: What You Don’t Know About the Food Industry.”

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Your Five-A-Day

  1. ✌️ You’ve got what it takes to go vegan. We all do! The healthier the diet, the less you’ll have to worry about the long list of preventable diseases caused by eating unhealthy foods. [Sentient Media]
  2. 🌱 The future of vegan food production starts here. Three Canadian provinces (Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Manitoba) combined to export nearly $29 billion in agriculture and plant-based food products last year. Free-trade agreements across Europe and North America put Canada in the driver’s seat for plant-based protein production. [LIVEKINDLY]
  3. 🔥 Seattle Food Tech just got $1 million to expand production of its plant-based chicken nuggets. Currently, the plant-based chicken nuggets are about 20% more expensive than the animal-based version. But for what it’s worth (a lot), the plant-based chicken nuggets have 20% more protein. [Seattle Food Tech]
  4. 🗣 Animals crammed inside a ship, without room to breathe, get sick and die. Then their bodies are thrown overboard instead of reported dead. Sure, this is just word-of-mouth, but the video says it all. [Maritime Executive]
  5. 🍔 McDonald’s does a lot of things wrong. But the El Veggo burger might be their best vegan patty yet. [VegNews]

Read This Book

Get ready for a trip. In Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us About Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom (Chelsea Green 2018), Fred Provenza details the complicated relationship between humans and food with the kind of well-sourced, yet misguided science that restores the plant-based future to its rightful balance. The shortest line to draw between humankind and nature is what we eat, after all.

Herbivores go about the world in search of food much like the way vegans browse the aisles of non-vegan grocery stores. How can I get the nutrients I need while ingesting the least toxins? Fertilizer, like processed food, makes certain meals more appetizing than others. The food systems that sprout up around humans, however, look quite different than the food system animals join.

No two species are alike. The nutritional needs of humans are much different than other animals. But the sliding scale of environmentally friendly eating is not sliding. Of course, we eat more protein than a chipmunk, but we don’t act like it. Time and again, we act like there is no bottom to the barrel and rely on animals for protein, instead of planting the seed ourselves.

Read the full review of Nourishment.

 


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