Plant-Based Meat

Attention all flexitarians or plant-based meat fans. You may be on the right track. A new study finds that eating plant-based meats five times a week is enough to improve your gut health and tilt the balance of bacteria in your body from "unhealthy" to "healthy," which in turn helps prevent disease...

Someone has a beef with plant-based meats. On November 2, USAToday treated readers to an op-ed entitled, “Let them eat steak: Hold the shame, red meat is not bad for you or climate change.” The piece, written by Will Coggin, managing director of the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), was just one part of a multi-pronged campaign by CCF to undermine consumer’s beliefs in the health and environmental benefits of plant-based meats.

They're going after the label. First, the Dairy Pride Act was introduced into the Senate to make it illegal to label products "milk" or "yogurt" or "cheese" unless they were made from animal milk, so alternatives like almond milk or oat milk would have to find a new name. Now the same ... Read More ...