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What’s Missing From the Conversation About Plant-Based Meat?

5 min readSep 11, 2019

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Plant-based meats are obviously better for animal rights, but replacing a beef burger with a Beyond burger isn’t going to save the planet from climate change.

Vegetables are better for the environment than plant-based meats.

Plant-based meats are ultraprocessed, but beef has a hefty ingredient list, too.

The health impacts of plant-based meat are TBD.

If you’re a carnivore, switching from a beef burger to a plant-based burger is a good thing for your health, the health of the planet, as well as animals. But if you are comfortable with plants tasting like plants, just stick to unprocessed vegetables and grains.

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Juliette Luini
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Written by Juliette Luini

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