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The "Backlash" to Plant-Based Meat Has a Sneaky, if Not Surprising, Explanation
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Without meat ard other animal praducts many simply can't consume enough complete protein. Plant proteins apart from hemp are limited in their amino acid profile. Milk, meat and egg are staples for good reason
Milk is another great example of industry influencing diet, it is not a necessary component of people's diet once they are done being a tiny baby.
Can't or don't want to? Cutting meat out is quite easy and more obviously a choice when you instead eat eggs, nuts, varied veggies, and legumes. Heck of a lot cheaper too
People do not actually need much animal protein, certainly nowhere near the amount in American and European diets. Given that, it is not super hard for an adult to get the full compliment of necessary protein from a plant based diet. Milk, meat, and eggs are largely staples due to marketing.
That is just not true. Complete protein isn't really a problem because you just need to get the amino acids in at some point in the day. It takes much less than you'd think for that. For instance, beans technically are incomplete, but beans and rice are complete proteins.
Plus soy, which is an extremely common plant-based protein, is fully complete on its own
Most things you don't even need a certain amount every day, only a certain daily average. As long as you get that average in a week or so, you'll be fine.
Soy and quinoa both have all essential amino acids. And you can also combine different grains to get all essential amino acids.
If everything went vegan we'd need only 25% of the farms we currently have. So we can do fine without meat, and the planet will thank us.
I wonder where you think the animals you're eating got their protein from.