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Recipes using faux meat that will convert the carnivore in your life
In my life, I’ve conducted two “vegan journeys,” as I like to call them. I wanted to test the waters of my own willpower and see if I could commit to a meat-free life. When cooking for myself at home, I found the task easy: roasted vegetables, umami-rich sauces, lots of nuts and seeds and toast … lots of toast. But it was when I would try to have dinner out that I understood why most people find it hard to commit to a vegan diet. Just try being the one person who orders a group of sides when everyone
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The Best And Worst Vegetarian Meat Substitutes For The Environment
In an effort to protect the environment, many of us have started whipping up a tofu stir fry on the regular and chowing down on the popular Impossible Burger in place of a traditional beef hamburger patty. You’re on the right track if you’re doing this. Environmental experts agree that eating any type of meat substitute is, without a doubt, better for the environment than meat. “The single biggest step that will significantly reduce our environmental impact of the food we eat and grow is to ensure that we consume more plant-based proteins within our diets,” Mark Driscoll, a sustainability
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One in three using Paul McCartney’s Meat Free Monday turn vegetarian after five years
One in three meat-eaters who follow Meat Free Monday (MFM) for five years and beyond turn vegetarian, a new study claims. Research by the Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) and MFM has found that more than 30 per cent of those who engaged with the programme for five years or more stopped eating meat, with 20 per cent of those who engaged for three to five-years. The MFM campaign, which was founded by Paul McCartney and his daughters Mary and Stella in 2009, encourages people to eat a plant-based diet once a week. The idea is to help reduce
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Pizza Hut Adds Three Vegetarian Beyond Meat Pizzas To Its Menu
Pizza Hut has joined forces with meat-free company, Beyond Meat, to create three new vegetarian pizzas. The Beyond Meat pizzas were trialled a while back, but after proving a hit with pizza fans nationwide, the three pizzas are now becoming a permanent fixture on the Pizza Hut delivery menu. So, we’re guessing you’re keen to hear more about these tasty new pizzas, right? Well, here you go… First up is the Beyond Italian Style Sausage Supreme, which is loaded with meat-free Beyond Italian Style Sausage, oozy mozzarella cheese, mixed peppers, mushrooms and crunchy red onions. Also available is the Beyond
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In India, 81% limit meat in diet and 39% say they are vegetarian
Dishes on display at a food stall at a vegetarian food festival in Bangalore. (Manjunath Kiran/AFP via Getty Images) All of India’s most widely practiced religions have dietary laws and traditions. For example, Hindu texts often praise vegetarianism, and Hindus may also avoid eating beef because cows are traditionally viewed as sacred. Muslim teachings, meanwhile, prohibit pork. The vast majority of Indian adults (81%) follow some restrictions on meat in their diet, including refraining from eating certain meats, not eating meat on certain days, or both. However, most Indians do not abstain from meat altogether – only 39% of
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Lab-grown ‘meat’: Israelis enjoy the future with ‘food revolution’, Trending News
Diners in Israel’s central town of Ness Ziona are eating lab-grown “meat” that scientists claim is an environmentally friendly solution to feed the world’s rising population. A restaurant in Tel Aviv sells chicken grown in a lab. This restaurant is a type of SuperMeat testing ground that hosts regular test meals and generates customer feedback while awaiting regulatory approval. The aptly titled “The Chicken” serves burgers in an unusual setting: across the fine dining room, on the ground floor of a modest building in Ness Ziona, central Israel. The laboratory, where experts are busy behind big stainless steel vats, can
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Vegetarians Have Healthier Biomarkers Than Meat Eaters
U.K. researchers have found that vegetarians have better indicators of health, called biomarkers, than people who eat meat. Vegetarians had overall lower levels of cholesterol, among other biomarkers. Experts say people don’t have to become vegetarian to be healthy. Instead, eating meat in moderation can lead to better health. People who follow a vegetarian diet have a healthier biomarker profile than meat eaters, found a new observational study of more than 177,000 British adults being presented at this week’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO). According to the researchers, this applied to people of any age and weight, and was
