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🚫🌱 MISLEADING HEADLINES LINK PLANT-BASED MEAT TO HEART DISEASE Did you hear that plant-based meat can now apparently kill you? That is the consensus of media outlets like The Daily Telegraph, the New York Post and the Daily Mail News. Citing a study by Sao Paulo University and Imperial College London published in The Lancet journal, headline writers have decided – in a classic case of misinformation – that plant-based meat and veganism will increase your risk of heart disease. Backed by the World Cancer Research Fund, the study used the health data of nearly 118,400 Brits between 2009 and 2012, and assessed ultra-processed foods (UPFs). These foods are defined by the Nova classification as those produced via industrial formulations and techniques like extrusion or pre-frying, combined with cosmetic additives and substances of little culinary use. Think ice creams, sugary cereals, fizzy drinks, packaged breads and cakes, sausages and other ‘reconstituted meats’, and – yes – plant-based meat analogues. “Replacing meat and dairy with plant-based swaps might not be the simple health hack you think it is,” wrote the Daily Mail. “Fake meats and vegan food not as good for you as you might think,” read the headline for the Metro newspaper. “Full transparency would expose the myth that vegan foods are good for you – I am not talking here about whole grains, fruits, nuts and vegetables, which are perfectly healthy in a balanced diet with meat, fish, eggs and dairy products – but highly processed compounds of them, often laden with colourings, emulsifiers and flavourings,” wrote the Telegraph columnist Jamie Blackett, a beef farmer who regularly appears on GB News, the most unreliable and untrustworthy broadcaster in the UK. #GreenQueen #altprotein #futurefoods #sustainability #foodsystems

Dear Media, Stop Misleading Your Readers About Plant-Based Meat

Dear Media, Stop Misleading Your Readers About Plant-Based Meat

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