 The Great Plant-Based Con by Jayne Buxton
Delia Smith calls this the most incredible book. Sunday Times suggests it is persuasive, entertaining and well researched. This is on my to read list for July but for a change am listening to it on audible as a taster. I recently attended a conference where a very measured panel discussion on this topic was held and this is where I first heard about this book. My interest was peaked. It had to be dived into! Here is what Amazon have said. 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. But what if the pervasive message that the plant-based diet will improve our health and save the planet is misleading - or even false? What if removing animal foods from our diet is a serious threat to human health, and a red herring in the fight against climate change. In THE GREAT PLANT-BASED CON, Jayne Buxton demonstrates that each of these 'what-ifs' is, in fact, a reality. Drawing on the work of numerous health experts and researchers, she uncovers how the separate efforts of a constellation of individuals, companies and organisations are leading us down a dietary road that will have severe repercussions for our health and wellbeing, and for the future of the planet. THE GREAT PLANT-BASED CON is neither anti-plant nor anti-vegan - it is a call for us to take an honest look at the facts about human diets and their effect on the environment. Shocking and eye-opening, this book outlines everything you need to know to make more informed decisions about the food you choose to eat. Dietary trends have come and gone over the past few decades (often with disastrous consequences) and we need to be able to talk about the seemingly blanket solutions that are provided as the answer to all environmental problems. It is time to pull back the reins on the eager policy makers who fail to question the narratives amid the censorship and agendas… Anne Maher
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Maria O Donnell
7/7/2023 11:57:42 pm
Dear Anne, I read your piece advocating this book and your support for eating meat is quite clear. You spoke about plant based diets as being not really beneficial. I would certainly not base my judgement on the reading of just one book! Effective research is carried out using a wide sweep of texts. Usually, when you restrict your scope on a particular topic you get biased, unbalanced and myopic outcomes. Unfortunately, your article failed to address the plight of animals in this. Have you ever been in a slaughterhouse? (I have). Everyone who eats meat should visit one. The animals don't want to die. They smell death and they know what's ahead of them. They shake and cry because like us they are sentient beings.They fight for their lives for every last breath and heartbeat . Sometimes they are not stunned properly but the butchering starts regardless. There is no such thing as 'humane killing', killing by its very nature is violent . Inappropriate behaviour of workers cruelly mistreating the animals is a worldwide pandenic. For example: YouTube AlJazeera :Slaughterhouse in Ismalia. Animals have their tendons cut so they're unable to walk, eyes pierced with knives while the workers laugh. This is what happens when we become desensitised, cruelty becomes normal. Animals are the most vulnerable of all as they are voiceless. There is plenty more footage on YouTube to support what Im saying, chinese fur farms is another. So not only are they going to their death their last few minutes of life is hell. They don't want to die for a 10 minute meal and neither would you if the roles were reversed. 12 week old lambs, calves , chickens - all killed when very young- just babies.No one cares because we treat them objectively and not for the living beings they are. Male calves born to a dairy cow are sent to slaughter only weeks old as they are not milk producers. The young male calf is dispatched to the slaughterhouse so humans can drink that cows breast milk, the milk that was meant for her now slaughtered baby..Where is our empathy? Their lives are as important to them as ours is to us. Why put them through this horrific torture when there are so many plant based options and no animal has to die. Cultivated meat will be available in Ireland very soon and will have the same nutritional value and taste just like conventional meat. Veganism is a philosophy based on empathy and kindness and seeing animals as part of our world. Non vegans consider vegans to be extreme. Well let me just say that vegans are not the people who are paying for these terrified animals to be killed, skinned disembowelled , cut up and their dead corpses sliced, diced minced etc. so yiu can eat the corpse. Your meat was once a living being. Every year on 21 June in Yulin China the dog and cat meat festival takes place . Dogs and cats are blowtorched and boiled alive, dismembered alive and beaten to death. They believe that torturing the Animal before murdering makes the meat more tender. You may think this is shocking and it certainly is. If you have a dog or a cat you will find the concept of torturing them, killing them and consuming them outrageous but why eat one animal and not another? The infamous wuhan wet markets with its unhygienic filthy conditions where animals are tortured before killing gave rise to a zoonotic disease we call covid. Covid therefore had its genesis in the filthy wet markets where animals are tortured and kept in squalor. Meat means cruelty. I think animals deserve to live their entire life out fully as the divine providence intended. Le dgea ghui, Maria O Donnell Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
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