Health, climate, animals: what the research says
What eating animals does to your health, to the planet, and to them. Peer-reviewed studies and primary records. Check the data, and make up your own mind.
The documented drawbacks, in full, next to the costs of the alternative. Both halves, no cheerleading.
What a plant-exclusive diet actually requires, which nutrients need attention, and how much of each food it takes.
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A vegan diet won't cure diabetes. It might replace half your pills.
A whole-food plant-based diet drops A1c by about 0.4 points on average, roughly half the effect of metformin. What the trials actually show, why it only works when it's whole foods and not vegan junk food, and the medication catch diabetics need to plan for before switching.
Your vegan diet has enough iron. Your coffee habit might be stealing it.
Non-heme iron from plants absorbs at 5-12%, against 14-18% for the heme iron in meat - which is why vegans need about 1.8 times the RDA. What closes the gap: pairing with vitamin C, keeping tea and coffee away from iron-focused meals, and where the iron actually is.
Can regenerative farming feed the world? It would take five Earths
Regenerative grazing beats a feedlot and does not scale to current diets. The land arithmetic, what controlled comparisons say about rotation, and how much soil carbon actually offsets.
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