It's not
about being liberal or conservative anymore y'all. That is a hype offered by the fascist whores who want to confuse the people with lies while they turn this country into an aristocratic police state. Some people will say anything to attain power and money. There is no such thing as the Liberal Media, but the Corporate media is very real.
Zoe takes down and analyzes the falsehoods of the main 3 pillars that underlie the "plant-based" diet propaganda
Plant-based is healthier.
Wrong.
All plants have low-level toxins that humans have learned to mitigate by processing the plants. There are a number of nutrients that cannot come from plants alone and can only come from animal products, or necessitate using supplements. The bio-availability of some nutrients is also very poor from plant sources because humans distinguished ourselves from apes by becoming hyper-carnivores like cats and dogs, and not as reliant on plants. Vitamin A from meat based retinol for instance is practically 100%, but is likely only 10% from the Beta-Carotene you get from carrots. A lot of plant-based nutrients are also locked up into carrier packages by plants (like Phytic Acid) that humans cannot access because we don't produce the enzyme phytase like rats. Whereas all nutrients in animal products are highly bi-available by humans.
Plant-based is more humane.
Wrong.
All foods that humans eat involves killing animals. Integrating livestock and domesticating some plant species into a more long term farming economy actually kills far fewer species. The nitrogen run-off and top-soil erosion alone kills all kinds of wildlife.
Plant-based is better for the environment.
Also. Completely. Wrong.
One thing Mrs. Harcombe brought out in the video was that Termites excrete more methane than Cows burp. But seriously, monoculture agriculture and greenhouse production systems are not much different from CAFO's. Whatever argument you want to make here however must include the reality of how our current farming apparatus is destroying the top-soil and the available sources of fresh water.
At the end Mrs. Harcombe bravely presents the fact that the plant-based message is being promoted by huge agro-pharmaceutical-chemical companies.
There is no science behind any of the message however, and whatever studies that are used to promote the message are inadequate, compromised by confounding variables, or measure proxy marker outcomes (like LDL) that don't really associate very well (if at all) with the larger premise. In other words, they are using contrived studies to manufacture proxy outcomes that are loaded down with specious relevance and then pumping out "documentaries" to sell their self-serving paradigm
Friday, 5 January 2024 at 23h 12m 43s
Brainwashing to eat in order to add revenue
The truth is that if we are eating in a way that creates metabolic balance, none of us has to eat an enormous amount of food. Eating three meals a day with snacks in between is NOT normal.
Tuesday, 2 January 2024 at 10h 28m 16s
Testimonial
This is why diet matters.
"The burden of thinking about food [is] gone."
In my life, this is true. I remember the moment when I changed my own diet and was sitting in my room at 3pm realizing I did not consider or think of food for the last 6 hours. Ever since, eating is simple. I eat when I am hungry. I can go more than 4 hours without eating effortlessly without any thoughts involved. The scientific reason: my body uses fat stores and my liver creates ketones rather than being constantly bombarded with insulin and having to process carbohydrates.
Sunday, 31 December 2023 at 19h 29m 54s
Insulin and Glucagon
Here is Dr. Ben Bikman explaining the action of these hormones as regards the role of protein in the diet.
Thursday, 28 December 2023 at 8h 2m 18s
Professor Bart Kay demolishes the Calories misconception
Calories are the heat energy expressed in terms of photons and photons have no mass.
At the timestamp 12:03, a human body is not subject to the first law of Thermodynamics because the human digestion of food is regulated by a complex endocrine system and hormonal processes, using enzymes to breakdown macro nutrients and the absorption of various minerals and vitamins.
Wednesday, 27 December 2023 at 19h 18m 8s
Charlatan rebuked and dismantled
I do think the plant-based diet people are going down a rabbit hole, uttering vacuous stupidity in order proselytize their ideology. When ideology abuts against truth, ideology needs to step aside and take a cold shower.
Milton Mills is a charlatan. He makes good money doing these lectures for people who pay top dollar to hear what they want to hear. There are also large conglomerate corporations who promote this BS because people who eat a proper human diet for their particular genetics will actually eat a whole lot less. So people like Milton Mills are hired to stir up the waters so that people spend money eating while becoming slowly unhealthy.
Eating 200 grams of Carbs per day every day all year long is not a proper human diet. Fats were always a part of a human diet, that's why we put butter, bacon and sour cream on potatoes, rather than eating the potatoes raw.
Tuesday, 26 December 2023 at 19h 57m 48s
Lies and damned Lies
Keto or Carnivore or whatever you want to call it, as compared to a Plant-based diet is a matter of contention, but I think we should all agree that the point is to NOT blather about nonsense and ideological promotion.
Here is Australian Professor Bart Kay trouncing the lies coming from a propaganda video.
Personally I eat quality sources of meat, along with a small amount of plant food, especially sauerkraut. Any plant sources of food that I eat however are intentionally processed, soaking in a brine solution and cooking thoroughly in order to diminished the anti-nutrients and low-level toxins.
Vitamin A for instance, cannot come bio-available from a plant source, and must be converted by the liver at a 1 to 9 ratio at best. Same with iron, magnesium, and protein. Plant proteins are also often difficult to break down, and largely pass into the colon partially intact damaging the lining of the small intestines when they get lodged in the spaces between the villa, not small enough to attach to a carrier salt and get transported into the epithelial cells, so they sit and cause inflammation problems. These molecules normally get trapped in the mucus layer of the small intestine, but if the daily bombardment overwhelms the mucus layer, the non-digestible plant proteins wreak havoc on our intestinal epithelial cells and cell junctions against molecules in the colon entering the blood stream.
Friday, 22 December 2023 at 3h 44m 23s
The Avocado Story
Giant Sloths did not defecate avocado seeds, despite the New York Times once again spreading myths and disinformation.
Humans started growing them 10,000 years ago in Mexico. That's it.
Thursday, 21 December 2023 at 6h 21m 46s
So true
This is Miranda Scholl on how to handle bullshit.
Thursday, 21 December 2023 at 2h 19m 26s
My two heroes in the 21st century
This is a great discussion about the reality of human diet with Ken Berry and Eric Westman.