Plant-based is best for health, go vegan to help save the planet, eat less meat... Almost every day we are bombarded with the seemingly incontrovertible message that we must reduce our consumption of meat and dairy - or eliminate them from our diets altogether.

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I don't need to be convinced about LCHF (I not longer carry around 40kg of fat or have T2 diabetes, because of this,) a diet I've followed for over a decade, or about the lunacy of 'healthy' veganism.Second, it fuels the perception that all plant-based foods are healthier than all animal-derived ones, which is not always true. If people replace fish, meat, eggs and cheese with plant-based ultra-processed foods, it might actually do us – and the planet – more harm than good. Before writing the book, she had always been more of a baked-potato-and-salad person, than a steak person. However, researching her book has made her appreciate meat and its health benefits. She now eats some animal-sourced foods (eggs, meat, cheese) alongside a variety of vegetables every day, including having meat for dinner three or four times a week, and a “nice 4oz steak” about once a week.

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For someone who drives a car, ditching the car or driving it less often also constitutes an important contribution. Do both of these things and you could wipe 6.9 tonnes of carbon off your total footprint. Buxton also charts in her book how an anti-meat agenda started with the Seventh-day Adventists’ “Garden of Eden” diet in the 19th century, which advocated veg­etarianism. Meat-free proponent John Harvey Kellogg, of ­Kellogg’s Corn Flakes fame, championed the car­bo­hydrate-rich diet that dominates today. “They have been very influential in the dietary committees and forming the dietary guidelines that have been developed since.” THE GREAT PLANT-BASED CON is persuasive, entertaining and well researched ... the book will help to alleviate the guilt many of us feel about our diets - Sunday Times Part four argues for pasture-fed ruminant farming over industrial systems, why there should be a return to unprocessed real food, and is essentially a welcome appeal for a return to nutritional common sense. The Judge's report proposes that a Tribunal be established under legislation to hear and determine claims...

Last year the Advertising Standards Authority banned certain adverts by the Swedish company Oatly which it found had misled consumers over the environmental benefits of switching from dairy to plant-based milk.

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Ridiculous links between vegetarian and vegan diets and religion, for example because some religions didn't eat meat she links meat free diets with religious ideas about the sin of masturbation. The arguments are so ridiculous and seem as unfounded as saying a murderer had a beard so all bearded men are murderers.

Anxious meat-eaters are being brainwashed, Jayne Buxton says. They are being shamed by the fashionable consensus that a “plant-based diet will improve our health and save the planet”. A seasoned “myth-buster” whose 1998 polemic Mother War: Starting the Workplace Revolution challenged stereotypes around working mothers, Buxton now wants to do a similar job with food, and correct what she sees as misleading claims about the personal and environmental benefits of veganism. But here's the thing: it ain't just a rant. Buxton's done her homework. She's got facts, figures, and a whole lotta passion behind her arguments. Whether you agree with her or not, you've got to admit, she's put in the work. She thinks we should all be grateful to animal rights activists, vegans and vegetarians for highlighting these issues. “That’s a positive contribution. The solution is maybe where we part company.” At the outset the author explains that she is not anti-plant but, rather, supports the view “that plant and animal foods work synergistically to generate maximum nutritional benefits for human health”. The book comprises four parts: (1) Are plant-based diets better for your health? (2) Will plant-based diets save the planet? (3) Who is advocating for plant-based diet, and why? (4) How should we eat?

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This Morning is on ITV1 weekdays from 10am and available to stream on ITVHub Read More Related Articles Some believe cutting animal foods out and replacing them with plant-based alternatives does not have much of an impact When it comes to veganism, she is concerned that a diet requiring additional supplementation (plant-based diets are deficient in nutrients such as preformed vitamin A, B12 and D, iodine, iron, omega-3, several essential amino acids and zinc) can be held up as healthier than a balanced one that doesn’t. Whatever your starting point in the debate around meat, this book will certainly enlighten your perspectives and sharpen your thinking around the many complex issues regarding health, nature, climate, policy, industry, science and media. This brusque eye and tart tongue report on such set pieces as VE Day and George VI’s funeral as well as his own knotty love life, the theatrical world he was introduced to by Terence Rattigan, daily politics, any number of royals – major and minor – and his deaf chef. It is never less than diverting.At the heart of this, Buxton says, is the fact that we have to get to grips with the fundamental reality that: “For us to eat, there will be death.”