The Gamechanger Vegan Propaganda Piece Dismantled - Rogan - Kresser ep

YouTube - Joe Rogan - Chris Kresser

Chris Kresser (former raw-vegan type) does a superb job of civilly and politely tearing apart the vegan propaganda Netflix film (funded by pea-protein investor James Cameron).

Summary from shownotes (doesn't even begin to describe the awesomeness of this episode--it also has some great tools for analyzing nutritional dogma, generally; I like the break down of protein bioavailability too):

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If the purpose of this film was to say, ‘It’s possible to survive on a plant-based diet and here are some athletes that have done so,’ I wouldn’t have had any qualms with it… I take issue with it because it went a step further and said a plant-based diet is the optimal diet for athletes and everybody else.” – Chris Kresser
“If you take someone who’s been on a standard American diet… and they switch from that to a plant-based diet, well, of course, they’ll feel better. They’ve gone from eating absolute crap to real foods.” – Chris Kresser
But as time goes on, vegans often deficient in protein and a variety of micronutrients (i.e., vitamin A, vitamin B12, calcium, zinc, and iron)
Vegans kill animals too
Industrial agriculture kills far more animals (insects, rodents, mice, and birds) than eating cows
Chris recalls a study that found between 35 and 250 mice are killed per acre of land cultivated for agriculture (in total, ~7.3 billion animals are killed every year from plant agriculture alone)
Greenhouse gases emitted due to meat consumption are largely exaggerated
A standard American diet that includes meat is NOT the same as a whole foods-based diet that includes meat
It’s mostly a myth that consuming chicken, fish, and red meat increases your risk of cancer
Raising cattle doesn’t waste as much water as you think
The typical claim: 2400 gallons of water is used to produce a pound of beef
But what you don’t hear: The vast majority of this water, even from feedlot beef, is rainfall (only 6% is groundwater)
For pasture-raised beef, 97% of the water used comes from rain. The other 3% comes from irrigation (typically, about 280 gallons is used to produce a pound of beef – this may sound like a lot, but keep in mind this is less than the water needed to produce a pound of avocados, rice, almonds, or sugar).

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