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Post by M. Hawbaker on Jul 28, 2023 14:43:47 GMT
New research says cow's milk is better for you than oat milk or other plant-based vegan alternativesThe plant-based milk industry is booming, and new milks seem to be cropping up everywhere — from the old standbys of almond milk and oat milk, to newfangled pistachio milk and cashew milk. The options are endless. But few of these alternatives compare to cow's milk in terms of nutrition, according to data presented on July 24 at the American Society for Nutrition Conference in Boston. The data has not yet been published. "I thought going into this that the manufacturers would have been looking at cow's milk and trying to match it with these products," Dr. Abigail Johnson, who researches nutrition at the University of Minnesota, told Insider. Instead, there's so much variability in the nutritional content of non-dairy products, "I think that the flavor and the mouthfeel and the other properties are probably what's mostly driving the development in these products and not so much like if they are a nutritional match for cow's milk," Johnson said. Scientists analyzed the nutrition labels for 237 plant-based milk products from 23 different manufacturers. But only 28 of the beverages were comparable or better than dairy milk when it came to vitamin D, calcium and protein. Of the plant-based milks, oat milk was the plant milk most commonly fortified with calcium and vitamin D — 76% of the oat milks analyzed contained both nutrients. The runner ups were soy milks and almond milks. But the plant-based milks were highly variable. Plant-based milks tended to have less protein than cow's milk as well — a fact that's "been known," said Johnson. Cow's milk contains 8 grams of protein per serving. Soy milk is typically equivalent in protein, but other plant-based milks contain only 2 grams of protein on average, Johnson said. www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/research-says-cows-milk-better-201331870.html
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Post by barb43 on Jul 29, 2023 0:45:19 GMT
Vindicated! All those milk cows are vindicated!
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Post by barb43 on Aug 15, 2023 16:24:45 GMT
Researchers create 3D-printed vegan seafood
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Aug 15, 2023 16:47:25 GMT
This fake seafood does not appeal to me any more than the other fake meat items that they have been pushing for the last few years. I'm still waiting for someone to come up with a way to make faux vegetables out of meat.
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Post by barb43 on Aug 15, 2023 23:26:07 GMT
I just can't imagine eating something made on a 3-D printer.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Sept 2, 2023 21:19:55 GMT
Plant-based meat substitutes stifle creativity, and professional chefs aren't having itIt’s no secret that plant-based meat is seeing a steady decrease in profit and also isn’t resonating much with customers. But for the Beyonds and Impossibles of the world, there’s another big problem at play: Chefs aren’t really embracing its use, either. Why? Because it’s a frankly unexceptional option compared to its less processed counterparts—that is, the actual vegetables chefs cook with every day. I occasionally sell pasta dinners out here in Los Angeles, and I’m always trying to offer options for vegans or vegetarians, of which LA has many. Italian food is often seamlessly vegetarian: Dough doesn’t need eggs and sauce doesn’t need meat to be good. There is, however, an irreplaceable richness to a pappardelle bolognese that’s impossible to recreate without animal product, so I sought out a suitable replacement. For a while, I ran a Beyond Meat bolognese. Essentially, I just replaced the ground beef and pork with Beyond Meat and Impossible Sausage, following the same cooking steps I would for a regular bolognese: olive oil, soffritto, tomato paste, red wine, tomatoes, broth, “meat,” herbs, then simmer. The result was fine enough—people enjoyed it—but the fake meat felt completely disjointed from the sauce itself, like it was added at the last second. The ingredients weren’t melding. After a few go-arounds with Beyond bolognese, two thoughts occurred to me: One, a different product would taste better in this dish than plant-based meat. Two, it wasn’t all that fun to make. Simply put, the Beyond Meat bolognese was trite, uninspired, and lifeless. Soon after, I pivoted to a traditional sugo finto, which means “fake sauce” in Italian. Sugo finto is essentially a ton of vegetables roughly chopped to mimic the appearance of meat (you’re looking at a ton of knife work), and though it creates a “faux” solution the way Beyond Meat does, chopped vegetables encourage way more creativity and flavor. There’s more imagination at play, even in selecting which vegetables to use, since the quantity of each will affect the final product (more carrots, for example, means a sweeter dish). Making sugo finto was a much more joyful cooking process, and customers were happier to experience it. thetakeout.com/what-restaurant-chefs-love-hate-about-plant-based-meat-1850585723
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Post by barb43 on Sept 3, 2023 0:13:35 GMT
This is a pretty good article, except for the use of a couple of crude words, which added nothing to the subject. The above paragraph is the end of it.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Sept 14, 2023 18:16:44 GMT
Now even CATS are being told to go vegan! Felines who follow meat-free diets have fewer health disorders and are less likely to need medication, study claimsCats are notoriously fond of milk and mice, but giving them a vegan diet may have health benefits - at least according to their owners. Researchers surveyed more than 1,300 cat owners, almost 10 per cent of whom fed their animals vegan pet food. Cats on vegan food were less likely to require medication, according to answers from their owners, and less likely to be unwell, to end up on a medicated diet for health problems, or to visit the vet more than once a year. However it cannot be certain that these individual results are accurate, as there were only 127 vegan cats in the study, making it hard to be sure the health benefits were not due to chance. When researchers looked at 22 health conditions, 15 of these were seen less commonly among the cats eating vegan food, including gastrointestinal problems like diarrhoea and vomiting, hormonal disorders like diabetes, skin problems and respiratory tract issues. But the results were again uncertain, because of the small number of vegan cats, and the British Veterinary Association currently does not recommend a vegan diet for cats, as they require an adequate amount of essential nutrients, such as taurine and a type of vitamin A, which occur in animal products but they say are minimal or missing in plant foods. Also the study found a significantly greater risk of kidney disease in vegan cats compared to meat-eaters, although this was based on only four cats given a vegan diet. www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12513067/Now-CATS-told-vegan-Felines-follow-meat-free-diets-fewer-health-disorders-likely-need-medication-study-claims.htmlSeems like animal abuse to me. Do these people not understand what it means for an animal to be classified as a carnivore?
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Post by barb43 on Sept 15, 2023 13:45:08 GMT
Yeh, just a couple of comments here -- Our first long-time cat, who we'd rescued when he was a kitten and feral, ended up unable to eat one of the major brands of cat food because it caused kidney problems for him. He spent most of his life eating canned, bland food from the vet's office - but he seemed happy with that. Certainly better than his near-death experience with the brandname offering. Totally agree! And, no, I doubt they have a grasp for that last noun - "carnivore".
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Post by barb43 on Sept 16, 2023 14:19:08 GMT
Do you realize 'how far' this whole subject has progressed since the first post on this thread, which was in made in 2019 - ? I really thought this was a hokey subject - pie in the sky, coming from those who'd pal'd around with Al Gore and his ilk for 40 years. You know, real red-blooded Americans would never really consider giving up their red meat. It's a little flabbergasting, looking back through these article headlines. I'm thankful we still have beef, and elk, and deer, and buffalo to eat; i.e., "real food". Praying we really won't ever get to a fully meatless, or worse - vegan, world before Jesus' return.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Sept 16, 2023 16:39:51 GMT
I was looking back through this thread, and for some reason it got me to thinking about how in so many of the older sci-fi movies and shows the future people's "food" was usually depicted as just either pills or capsules of some sort or else little candy bar type squares. I wonder if that might not be the next thing to come down the line in regards to faux food. Maybe not. Folks like to eat big meals too much.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Sept 21, 2023 20:29:38 GMT
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Oct 2, 2023 22:39:44 GMT
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Oct 3, 2023 17:29:36 GMT
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Oct 20, 2023 15:35:56 GMT
Tyson Foods, one of the biggest meat producers, is investing in insect proteinTyson, a major US producer of beef, pork and chicken, is betting on protein that comes from insects. The meat processor said on Tuesday that it has invested in Protix, a Netherlands-based insect ingredients maker. Tyson is not only taking a minority stake in the company, but is working alongside it to build a US factory. That facility will use animal waste to feed black soldier flies, which will then be turned into food for pets, poultry and fish. Tyson did not disclose the financial specifics of the deal. Those flies are not going into human food, at this point. “Today, we’re focused on more of [an] ingredient application with insect protein than we are a consumer application,” said John R. Tyson, chief financial officer of Tyson Foods. Insect protein, long hailed as a sustainable food source, hasn’t caught on in the mainstream. But in recent years, interest in insects as ingredients for animal food has been growing. A 2021 report from Rabobank noted that “the demand for insect protein, mainly as an animal feed and pet food ingredient, could reach half a million metric tons by 2030, up from today’s market of approximately 10,000 metric tons.” That year, Mars launched a line of cat food made from insects, called LoveBug. The market for insect ingredients is “definitely growing at what I would think is an exponential speed,” said Christine Johanna Picard, a professor of biology at the Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis School of Science. Picard helped create the Center for Environmental Sustainability through Insect Farming, a partnership between academia and industry members including Tyson and Protix. “There are more and more startups coming into the space because there’s so much demand for insect protein,” she said. www.yahoo.com/finance/news/tyson-one-biggest-meat-producers-103106908.html
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