{"id":21676,"date":"2024-12-20T03:39:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T03:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=21676"},"modified":"2024-12-20T03:39:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T03:39:31","slug":"the-man-who-busted-the-myth-of-fake-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2024\/12\/20\/the-man-who-busted-the-myth-of-fake-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Busted the Myth of Fake Meat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>UNITED KINGDOM, December 15, 2024 (The Telegraph): \u201cPlant-based diets are in a tough moment,\u201d says Dr. Marco Springmann. \u201cTen years ago there was a lot of excitement about them. As senior researcher at the University of Oxford\u2019s Environmental Change Institute, Springmann is tackling one of the most contentious food issues of our time: what alternatives should we embrace to replace meat and dairy sustainably and healthily?<br><br>His latest research, a comprehensive study of 24 milk and meat alternatives, found that legumes, such as peas, were a better alternative on cost, emissions and health, than veggie burgers and other highly processed vegetarian and vegan options, although they were better than meat and animal milk. \u201cUnprocessed legumes such as peas and beans were the clear winner in our assessment,\u201d he says. \u201cThey performed well from all perspectives, including nutritional, health, environmental and cost.\u201d Worst of all were the much-vaunted lab-grown meats. His study found that at current costs they were 40,000 per cent more expensive than real meat, with similar emissions and probably similar health impacts. Springmann also advocates for a shift in how we think about meals. As he points out, in Indian or other plant-led cuisines, the absence of meat products is felt less. \u201cIn those more ethnic meals it doesn\u2019t seem to be missing that there\u2019s no meat or milk portion.\u201c<br><br>Much more at source.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2024\/12\/15\/the-man-who-busted-the-myth-of-fake-meat\/?ICID=continue_without_subscribing_reg_first\n\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2024\/12\/15\/the-man-who-busted-the-myth-of-fake-meat\/?ICID=continue_without_subscribing_reg_first<br><\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED KINGDOM, December 15, 2024 (The Telegraph): \u201cPlant-based diets are in a tough moment,\u201d says Dr. Marco Springmann. \u201cTen years,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21688,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21676\/revisions\/21688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}