Hi all;

Here is your latest serving of the WAV ‘Vegan Bites’ – lots of super food and animal issues for you to take a look at.

Enjoy – Regards Mark

 

‘Absolutely Fabulous’ Star Joanna Lumley Says She Never Eats Meat Or Fish – Feels ‘As Fit As A Flea’

Joanna Lumley Says She Never Eats Meat Or Fish – Feels ‘As Fit As A Flea’ | Plant Based News

KFC, On your way, this is the future:

VFC | Vegan Fried Chicken | All Meat No Animal

Ready to take the Veganuary pledge ?

Try Vegan With Us | Vegan Challenge | Veganuary

6 Exciting New Plant-Based Products You Probably Haven’t Heard Of

6 Exciting New Plant-Based Products You Probably Haven’t Heard Of (chooseveg.com)

Famed dairy brand Boursin recently released a completely plant-based garlic and herbs cheese spread

Famed Dairy Brand Boursin Releases First Plant-Based Cheese Spread (mercyforanimals.org)

Members of Congress Send Letter Urging Investigation into Costco Cruelty

Members of Congress Send Letter Urging Investigation into Costco Cruelty (mercyforanimals.org)

Mercy for Animals Hope Gala:

Mercy For Animals Hope Gala (mfagala.com)

5 Exciting New Plant-Based Options You Can Find at Trader Joe’s

5 Exciting New Plant-Based Options You Can Find at Trader Joe’s (chooseveg.com)

Epicurious ditched beef. Why stop there?

Epicurious ditched beef. Why stop there? | Canada’s National Observer: News & Analysis

Cooking oil/fat consumption and deaths from cardiometabolic diseases and other causes: prospective analysis of 521,120 individuals

Cooking oil/fat consumption and deaths from cardiometabolic diseases and other causes: prospective analysis of 521,120 individuals | BMC Medicine | Full Text (biomedcentral.com)

Thai basil tempeh stir fry

Thai basil tempeh stir fry – Choosing Chia

Jack Black Says Vegan Is Best For The Planet And ‘Straight Up Delish’

Jack Black Says Vegan Is Best For The Planet And ‘Straight Up Delish’ (plantbasednews.org)

Food for life global: 
240 Projects Serving Up To2 Million Meals Daily

Food for Life Global – Vegan Charity Food Relief Organization (ffl.org)

 

Plant-based foods are good for both health and the environment

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New analysis by researchers from the University of Oxford and the University of Minnesota has identified a range of ‘win-win’ foods that both improve human health and have a low impact on the environment.

Plant-based foods are good for both health and the environment | University of Oxford

Foods associated with improved health (whole grain cereals, fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts and some vegetable oils high in unsaturated fats, such as olive oil) have among the lowest environmental impacts, they found. Foods with the largest negative environmental impacts—unprocessed and processed red meat—were consistently associated with the largest increases in disease risk.

The exceptions were fish, which is a healthy food but has moderate environmental impacts, and processed foods high in sugars, which can be harmful to health but have a relatively low environmental impact. Red meat (pork, beef, mutton, and goat) and processed meat had the highest environmental impacts of all foods and were also associated with the largest increases in disease risk. Other animal-source foods, such as dairy and poultry meat, had moderate environmental impacts and a small impact on disease risk compared to other foods.

Lead author Dr Michael Clark, of the Livestock, Environment and People (LEAP) project at the Oxford Martin School, and the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, says the findings could help consumers make better choices by equipping them with an understanding of the health and environmental impacts of different foods, and enable policymakers to issue more effective dietary guidelines.

‘Diets are a leading source of poor health and environmental harm,’ said Dr Clark. ‘Continuing to eat the way we do threatens societies, through chronic ill health and degradation of Earth’s climate, ecosystems, and water resources.

‘Choosing better, more sustainable diets is one of the main ways people can improve their health and help protect the environment. How and where a food is produced also affects its environmental impact, but to a much smaller extent than food choice.’

Using a comparison of an additional serving per day of 15 different foods, the researchers analysed collections of large epidemiological cohort studies—which follow populations of individuals through time— and life cycle assessments—which are used to estimate the environmental impacts per unit of food produced. The health and environmental analyses each incorporated five outcomes (total mortality, heart disease, stroke, type II diabetes, and colorectal cancer for health; and greenhouse gas emissions, land use, water use, water pollution, and acidification potential for environment), and the results were consistent when applied across nearly all combinations of health and environmental outcomes.

‘The study adds to the growing body of evidence that stresses that replacing meat and dairy with a variety of plant-based foods can improve both your health and the health of the planet,’ said co-author Dr Marco Springmann, of the LEAP project and Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Population Health.

The full paper, ‘Multiple health and environmental impacts of foods,’ is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 

Regards Mark

POTUS Joe Biden Urged To Shift To Plant-Centered Food System To Combat Climate Change

The politician is under pressure to transform the US food system leading up to his first ever climate summit as President on Earth Day

POTUS Joe Biden Urged To Shift To Plant-Centered Food System | Plant Based News

POTUS Joe Biden is being urged to shift to a plant-centered food system to ‘combat climate change‘.

To mark Earth Day (April 22) the politician is hosting his first climate summit as President. There, he will discuss the ‘urgency of stringer climate action’ with 40 world leaders.

POTUS Joe Biden

Biden has also announced a $2 trillion proposal to ‘strengthen infrastructure while also tackling climate change’.

However, the plan does not include the promotion of animal-free food or support farmers in transitioning from traditional animal agriculture to plant-based production.

As a result, non-governmental organization ProVeg International has created a petition, calling on the politician to shift to a plant-centered food system.

At the time of writing, the petition has garnered more than 1,500 signatures already. 

‘A terrifying prospect in climate change’

Moreover, Michael Webermann is the US Executive Director of ProVeg International. In a statement sent to PBN, he said: “To discuss environmental crises without centering food production is to wilfully avoid the facts.

“What we eat affects not just climate change, but the biggest issues facing the planet, including pandemic risks, deforestation, antibiotic resistance, and food insecurity. 

“For instance, the FAO tells us that if 40 percent of all crops produced for feeding animals were used directly for human consumption, we could feed nine billion people by 2050. One has to ask when policy will reflect the urgency of this situation?”

Webermann then concluded: “We’re facing a terrifying prospect in climate change, but in diet change lies a real solution. 

“Plant-centered diets, if adopted by many, could be the key to this crisis. We have scientific consensus. Biden’s plans must reflect it.”

You can sign ProVeg International’s petition here

Regards Mark