7 Delicious Meat Alternatives (and Not a Lick of Tofu in Sight)

The idea that is propagated that people won't get enough protein without meat is a complete myth. The average American actually gets way too much protein in their diet, albeit the wrong kind that comes often in the form of fake food. Drives me crazy, just like low-fat dairy...

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Type O need meat

Type A no meat

Type B & AB mixed

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in contrary to popular belief our ancestors ate red meat during the special days like new year and midsummer.

and tempeh is superior to tofu.
my grandmother lived on a diet of rice, herbs,grinded coconut and peanuts, some baked onions once a week some salted fish.
In her 80ths she came in an oldage hospital.
She was convinced the crazy food with milkproducts and vitamines would kill her.
she died at an age of 92.
anyhow looking at the handsome hamburger heroes at Burger king and mcDonalds proof how healthy your daily meat is.

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in a free-ranging environment and fed on organic layers pellets.

I would also add mushrooms. They have that "meaty" texture and lots of nutrients but few calories. Many dishes that use ground beef can be made with chopped mushrooms.

I admit to loving a pepperoni pizza, but my "homemade" pizza is a pizza base with additional tomato paste and a topping of mushrooms, black olives, chopped onions and red and green peppers.

Oh, and the French top their pizzas with an egg in the middle!

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but since we all love it anyway, us vegans are glad to be able to make flavorful SEITAN, and it's cheap! It's been used for centuries in Asia by washing the starch out of flour/dough, what is left is vital wheat gluten.

The important thing is to eat a variety of protein sources, including garbanzos and other beans, nuts and seeds. I've heard 30g of protein per day is sufficient, so ignore all those paranoid people who whine "where do you get your protein?" it's easy.

here are some great seitan recipes:

Traditional Boiled Seitan (a la Tofurky)
www.theppk.com/recipes/dbrecipes/index.php?RecipeID=112

Baked Seitan Loaf O' Greatness (really!)
www.postpunkkitchen.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=15959&p=1

An excellent Chick-un seitan (her website is updating so check back)
http://www.joannavaught.com/

You'll never go back to meat after you try
Chicago Diner's Radical Reuben Seitan. Amazing.
http://www.vegetariantimes.com/recipes/10635?section=

To learn more about the ills of animal agriculture and animal derived proteins (especially casein) check out these enlightening documentaries, filled with expert physicians and nutrition scientist interviews.

adelicatebalance.tv
foodincmovie.com
thefutureoffood.com


When the heads of nutrition and internal medicine at major universities are going veg, it's not just a publicity stunt. Cloned meat, antibiotics, and e coli, ew. Read up on the facts and enjoy the vegan delights!!!

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think about our CURRENT situation, with animal agriculture dominating our land use, and second only to energy in greenhouse gases, there is no point in arguing about evolution (read this http://www.whale.to/a/comp.html) when our species is overwhelming the planet's resources. Eating meat is not a simple "free" choice, it impacts everyone because of our system. So until we reform/eliminate the abusers Monsanto and SmithField and ConAgra's air/water pollution, swine flu cess pools and unfair working conditions, the consequences of your choices will affect everyone!!!

"Food-Miles and the Relative Climate Impacts of Food Choices in the United States"

http://psufoodscience.typepad.com/
psu_food_science/files/es702969f.pdf (combine to one line)

QUOTE: "Different food groups exhibit a large range in GHG-intensity; on average, red meat is around 150% more GHG-intensive than chicken or fish. Thus, we suggest that dietary shift can be a more effective means of lowering an average household's food-related climate footprint than "buying local." Shifting less than one day per week's worth of calories from red meat and dairy products to chicken, fish, eggs, or a vegetable-based diet achieves more GHG reduction than buying all locally sourced food."

This peer-reviewed scientific article (that is, evidence, not emotional opinion!!) very clearly shows that the locavore movement is totally eclipsed by going veg/vegan.

Stop perpetuating the feel-good happy meat grass-fed illusion and look at the facts. Numbers. The scientific, real-world facts, not your "i want to believe what I want" facts.

As painful as it seems, the sooner you and your family can learn how to survive on less or no meat and dairy, the healthier you will become (need I prove this? come on already) and the better off our world for children and non-human animals of the future.

This isn't hippy shit, get with the scientific bandwagon, the earth isn't 6000 years old and impervious to our concerted effort to ruin it, organic isn't just a silly trend (www.sunbowfarm.org), and eating local or having a cow in your backyard don't make your food choices less detrimental.

Please... use rational thinking to understand the situation, not emotion- the Earth doesn't care how much you love meat or hate vegetarians, animal agriculture is still destructive.

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My fav is spicy hot veg chili. And if I get invited out, I don't rudely refuse to sample a main meat dish - have a little and pronounce it "dead and delicious".

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The Field Roast company makes a number of delicious veggie meats, all vegan, including a fantastic Italian sausage, and for those with a soy allergy these are perfect as they are made from wheat, veggies and spices. Their "Celebration Roast" is delicious as well.

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7 comments and no red meat trolls yet. Come on. That cholesterol clogging your arteries isn’t slowing you down is it? Where is your "save a cow, eat a vegetarian" comment? That one never gets old. Every one of these articles about saving the planet, not participating in immeasurable animal suffering, and being much, much more healthy thru a non meat diet, invokes the same boring response time after time after time from flesh eaters. And I guarantee this thread will turn into the same old bullshit soon enough. (Yes, I know I am not helping any with this post. But I am past trying to debate with the “dinning room table”.)

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Just a word of thanks for this article. My wife and I recently decided to stop eating meat after noticing a strange taste and smell of the meat when it was cooking. We don't regret the change one bit, in fact we wished we would have changed our diets years ago. We are shedding unwanted pounds, have more energy and even cleared some of that foggy memory. Living in the Bible belt of the US, we are finding it difficult to locate good alternatives to meat besides purchasing local produce. Finding raw milk is impossible in the US as dairy farmers are not permitted to sell or give away raw milk or products.

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Jeez Louise, don't you realize that tofu is a highly-processed food and that tempeh is simply fermented soybeans?

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And the planet did just fine with them, and with people eating them. If all of you spent 1% of this time addressing in a meaningful way the system used to feed and contain meat animals now, you could make a difference. Instead, during your own probably fairly brief periods of vegetarianism, or your continuation of eating meat during which you call yourselves vegetarians, you try to convert others to your religion. Is it working? Are your numbers climbing in any significant manner? And why does any vegetarian ever go back to eating meat? Most do.

Research nutrition before you believe religion. Start with Bruce Friedrich's The Top Five Nutrients Vegetarians Lack.

http://brucefriedrich.org/Top_Five_Nutrients.html

It begins:

"Both vegetarian and non-vegetarian diets have advantages.
Vegetarian diets tend to be rich in antioxidants, certain
vitamins, and healthy fats. Non-vegetarian diets, by
contrast, tend to contain more protein, iron, zinc,
calcium, and vitamin B-12. [he should be even more honest. Plants contain no B-12 at all]"

"If you already decided to adopt a vegetarian diet,
it is essential you learn how to increase your intake
and absorption of these nutrients to avoid short-term
and long-term health complications."

If you're a woman, do even more research. Only 3% of men in the US are low in iron, but 20% of women are, and 50% of pregnant women. Plant iron is absorbed very poorly by humans. A nursing woman low in B12 will show no symptoms and will hoard her B12 at her infant's expense. If vegetarian sermons ever mentioned these very dire problems, I'd have slightly more patience.

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ad at the bottom of the article. how silly.

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Read the book "Skinny Bitch". I've been following what they said and I've lost 23 lbs!!!!!

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I once ordered a Meatless Barbecued Beef sandwich in a lunch place with a name something like Healthy Heart. A sort of Sloppy Joe on a bun, it was just absolutely delicious, made with a soy product. I couldn't have told the difference between it and the real thing. So I was inspired to try this at home. I got the name of the soy stuff, tracked it down, bought some, and scrupulously followed directions for making Meatless BBQ Beef. What I found was that, by following directions exactly, I achieved a product that most resembled dog shit.

But eggplant is good.

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I'm not here to troll, just to point a view: I have been on a low-carb, mostly meat diet for awhile now and I'm loving it, and my body is too. Google for low-carb (proteinpower.com, etc.) and you'll find tons of info about the truth on low-carb, how studies have been manipulated to show veg is better for longevity, fat is bad for cholesterol and atherosclerosis, etc. (Read Good Calories, Bad Calories for a good schooling on the scientific method and the groupthink that controls diet policy) but we're not really arguing that here - it's the environmental impact. I would argue that the ag biz that supports corn, rice, wheat etc. has just as harmful an impact on the environment, in fact has led to a greater population load on the env. than if people ate majorly from an animal-based diet. Yes, factory farming sucks. Let's do something about it. Check out a book on Amazon, "The Vegetarian Myth," written by a 20-year radical feminist former vegan.

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Half the water consumed in the U.S. goes to irrigate land growing feed and fodder for livestock. Huge amounts of water wash away their excrement. U.S. livestock produce 20 times as much excrement as does the entire human population, creating sewage which is 10 to several hundred times as concentrated as raw domestic sewage. Animal wastes cause 10 times as much water pollution than does the U.S. human population; the meat industry causes 3 times as much harmful organic water pollution than the rest of the nation's industries combined.

Meat producers, the number one industrial polluters in our nation, contribute to half the water pollution in the United States. The water that goes into a 1,000 lb. steer could float a destroyer. It takes 25 gallons of water to produce a pound of wheat, but 2,500 gallons to produce a pound of meat. If these costs weren't subsidized by the American taxpayers, the cheapest hamburger meat would be $35 per pound!

The burden of subsidizing the California meat industry costs taxpayers $24 billion annually. Livestock producers are California's biggest consumers of water. Every tax dollar the state doles out to livestock producers costs taxpayers over 7 dollars in lost wages, higher living costs and reduced business income. 17 western states have enough water supplies to support economies and populations twice as large as the present.

Overgrazing of cattle leads to topsoil erosion, turning once-arable land into desert. We lose 4 million acres of topsoil each year and 85 percent of this loss is directly caused by raising livestock. To replace the soil we've lost, we're destroying our forests. Since 1967, the rate of deforestation in the U.S. has been 1 acre every 5 seconds. For each acre cleared in urbanization, 7 are cleared for grazing or growing livestock feed.

1/3rd of all raw materials in the U.S. are consumed by the livestock industry and it takes 3 times as much fossil fuel energy to produce meat than it does to produce plant foods. A report on the energy crisis in Scientific American warned: "The trends in meat consumption and energy consumption are on a collision course."

Nor can fish provide any help here. There are signs that the fishing industry (which is quite energy-intensive) has already overfished the oceans in several areas. And fish could never play a major role in the worlds diet anyway: the entire global fish catch of the world, if divided among all the world's inhabitants would amount to only a few ounces of fish per person per week.

The American Dietetic Association reports that throughout history, humans have lived on "vegetarian or near vegetarian diets,"; meat has traditionally been a luxury. Nathan Pritikin, author of The Pritikin Plan, recommended not more than 3 ounces of animal protein per day; 3 ounces per week for his patients who had already suffered a heart attack.

Providing the entire world with a meat-centered diet is absurd. But what about providing only the affluent with a meat-centered diet? If the world population triples in the next 100 years, and meat consumption continues, then meat production would have to triple as well. Instead of 3.7 billion acres of cropland and 7.5 billion acres of grazing land, we would require 11.1 billion acres of cropland and 22.5 billion acres of grazing land.

But this is slightly larger than the total land area of the six inhabited continents! We are desperately short of forests, water and energy already. Even if we resort to extreme methods of population control: abortion, infanticide, genocide, etc...modest increases in the world population would make it impossible to maintain current levels of meat consumption. On a vegetarian diet, however, the world could easily support a population several times its present size. The world's cattle alone consume enough to feed 8.7 billion humans.

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Keith Akers writes in A Vegetarian Sourcebook (1983):

"Livestock agriculture is far less efficient in its use of land resources than plant food agriculture. This is one of the oldest arguments in favor of vegetarianism. It played a role in Plato's Republic. The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley invoked the argument in his discussions of 'natural diet.' Mikkel Hindhede used the argument to help persuade Denmark to adopt a lacto-vegetarian diet when Denmark was blockaded by the Allies as a result of World War I. 'If Central Europe had adopted a similar diet,' he said, alluding to the disastrous German agricultural policies which emphasized meat production, 'I doubt that anyone would have starved.'"

In her 1971 bestseller, Diet for a Small Planet, author Frances Moore Lappe pointed out that it takes 16 pounds of grain to produce one pound of beef. Most of the arable land in this country is used to grow feed for animals. Mathematics professor Dr. Richard Schwartz, author of Judaism and Vegetarianism, writes about the "insanity" of animal agriculture.

In his book Consuming Passions, Australian philosopher Peter Singer writes:

"The case for vegetarianism is at its strongest when we see it as a moral protest against our use of animals as mere things, to be exploited for our convenience in whatever way makes them most cheaply available to us. Only the tiniest fraction of the tens of billions of farm animals slaughtered for food each year--the figure for the United States alone is nine billion--were treated during their lives in ways that respected their interests. Questions about the wrongness of killing in itself are not relevant to the moral issue of eating meat or eggs from factory-farmed animals, as most people in developed countries do.

"Even when animals are roaming freely over large areas, as sheep and cattle do in Australia, operations like hot-iron branding, castration, and dehorning are carried out without any regard for the animals' capacity to suffer. The same is true of handling and transport prior to slaughter. In the light of these facts, the issue to focus on is not whether there are some circumstances in which it could be right to eat meat, but on what we can do to avoid contributing to this immense amount of animal suffering.

"The answer is to boycott all meat and eggs produced by large-scale commercial methods of animal production, and encourage others to do the same. Consideration for the interests of animals alone is enough justification for this response, but the case is further strengthened by the environmental problems that the meat industry causes...

"Environmentalists are increasingly recognizing that the choice of what we eat is an environmental issue. Animals raised in sheds or on feedlots eat grains or soybeans...To convert eight or nine kilos of grain protein into a single kilo of animal protein wastes land, energy, and water. On a crowded planet with a growing human population, that is a luxury that we are becoming increasingly unable to afford.

"Intensive animal production is a heavy user of fossil fuels and a major source of pollution of both air and water. It releases large quantities of methane and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. We are risking unpredictable changes to the climate of our planet...for the sake of more hamburgers. A diet heavy in animal products, catered to by intensive animal production, is a disaster for animals, the environment, and the health of those who eat it."

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"One man's meat is another man/woman/child's hunger."

This slogan is part of the "Enough" campaign, with its aim of reducing meat consumption. The campaign highlights the waste of resources involved in feeding grain to animals.

"Every minute 18 children die from starvation, yet 40% of the world's grain is fed to animals for meat."

Vegetarianism for a trial period is advocated to "help the hungry, improve the environment" and "stop untold animal suffering." Vegetarianism is also recommended on health grounds.

This campaign actually has the support of organized religion.

Ronald J. Sider of Evangelicals for Social Action, in his 1977 book, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, pointed out that 220 million Americans were eating enough food (largely because of the high consumption of grain fed to livestock) to feed over one billion people in the poorer countries.

The realization that meat is an unnecessary luxury, resulting in inequities in the world food supply has prompted religious leaders in different Christian denominations to call on their members to abstain from meat on certain days of the week. Paul Moore, Jr., the Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of New York, made such an appeal in a November, 1974 pastoral letter calling for the observance of “meatless Wednesdays.”

A similar appeal had previously been issued by Cardinal Cooke, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York. The Reverend Eugene Carson Blake, former head of the World Council of Churches and founder of Bread for the World, has encouraged everyone in his anti-hunger organization to abstain from eating meat on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

“Is this not the fast I have chosen? To loosen the chains of wickedness, to undo the bonds of oppression, and to let the oppressed go free? Is it not to share thy bread with the hungry, sheltering the oppressed and the homeless? Clothing the naked when you see them, and not turning your back on your own.”

—Isaiah 58:6-8

“Honourable men may disagree honourably about some details of human treatment of the non-human,” wrote Stephen Clark in his 1977 book, The Moral Status of Animals, “but vegetarianism is now as necessary a pledge of moral devotion as was the refusal of emperor-worship in the early church.”

According to Clark, eating animal flesh is “gluttony,” and “Those who still eat flesh when they could do otherwise have no claim to be serious moralists.”

“Clark’s conclusion has real force and its power has yet to be sufficiently appreciated by fellow Christians,” says the Reverend Andrew Linzey, author of Christianity and the Rights of Animals. “Far from seeing the possibility of widespread vegetarianism as a threat to Old Testament norms, Christians should rather welcome the fact that the Spirit is enabling us to make decisions so that we may more properly conform to the original Genesis picture of living in peace with creation.”

Father Thomas Berry, a Catholic priest, author, and founder of the Riverdale Center of Religious Research in New York, wrote in 1987 that “Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all move toward for economic survival, physical well-being, and spiritual integrity.”

In 1992, members of Los Angeles’ First Unitarian Church agreed to serve vegetarian meals at the church’s weekly Sunday lunch. Their decision was made as a protest against animal cruelty and the environmental damage caused by the livestock industry.

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Maybe even better with MEAT.

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then why do vegetarians and vegans tout meat-like products? seems to me if our bodies didn't need it we wouldn't like the taste of it and veg/vegs wouldn't want meat replacements...

furthermore, why is cheese on the list? dairy cows aren't treated any better than meat cows...

oh...and author forgot MUSHROOMS...

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I have not eaten meat in about 20 years. I eat two meals a day. Breakfast: pure yoghurt -- no "dead fruit," fructose, sugar, etc. Greek yoghurt is very tasty. I also have Go Lean cereal and
milk or a piece of cranberry/walnut bread baked by a local baker (no additives). Evening meal or
lunch (remember only 2 meals per day) is salmon,
vegetables, cheese, etc. Dessert is usually a
tiny amount of pure ice cream (no fructose, etc.)
and a piece of dark chocolate. I am very healthy; having not had a cold in 25 years and have a great deal of energy.

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I do eat meat, but I don't eat much and I always try and buy locally-, humanely-raised, grass fed, antibiotic/hormone free meat. I find that it is easier to get all the vitamins, minerals, nutrients, etc I need by eating a wide variety of foods and that includes small portions of meat once or twice a week. I've seen the documentaries, I know how horrible industrial agriculture is for the environment and how cruelly the animals are treated, which is why I pay more money to buy the sort of meat described above. I also buy veggies from my local farmer's markets, eat a lot of beans and fish from regulated industries.

However, not everybody has the choice and contrary to popular belief, vegetables are not necessarily cheaper than meat. The new documentary Food, Inc does a wonderful job of demonstrating why low-income families often resort to eating cheap, industrially produced meat foods rather than veggies; to paraphrase the film, you can buy a cheeseburger for 99 cents but not a head of lettuce or broccoli. The biggest problem is that we over-subsidize corn production so it artificially lowers the cost of meat and processed foods. If we were to end this practice today and food cost what it should, people that can barely buy groceries now would be in big trouble. I'm not claiming I know the answers, but it's much more complicated than simply "go vegetarian". Soem people can't afford famer's markets, can't afford the space and/or time to plant a garden or simply don't have the space for it, particularly the urban poor. Telling people in those situations that going vegetarian is the answer and that it will be less expensive is patronizing and misleading.

I feel very strongly that Americans as a whole need to drastically reduce our meat consumption for the sake of the planet, not to mention our health but this idea that somehow if everybody went vegetarian the world would be a better place is placing too high of a value on individual responsibility and not appreciating the system in which we live and how it sets us up to eat the way most Americans do. I also don't belive, and there are no studies to show, that small scale animal husbandry is detrimental to the environment, nor is there evidence to show that vegetarianism is the only healthy way to eat.

And all you soy-lovers out there, i have one question: are you freakin' kidding me? As another poster mentioned, 90% of the soy in the US is genetically modified, produced in exactly the same unsustainable way as meat and the very nature of the GMO food production structure really hurts American famers. So please get off your high horse. Eating soy from Monsanto is not somehow better for our health or the planet than eating one or two small portions of sustainably grown meat a week.

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"A diet that can lead to heart attacks, cancer, and numerous other diseases cannot be a natural diet," writes Keith Akers in A Vegetarian Sourcebook. "A diet that pillages our resources of land, water, forests, and energy cannot be a natural diet. A diet that causes the unnecessary suffering and death of billions of animals each year cannot be a natural diet."

I understand there are conservative Christians who fear vegetarianism...which is kind of like being afraid of nonsmoking, nondrinking, or recycling. Ronald J. Sider of Evangelicals for Social Action, in his 1977 book, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, pointed out that 220 million Americans were eating enough food (largely because of the high consumption of grain fed to livestock) to feed over one billion people in the poorer countries.

A pamphlet put out by Compassion Over Killing says raising animals for food is one of the leading causes of both pollution and resource depletion today. According to a recent United Nations report, "Livestock's Long Shadow," raising chickens, turkeys, pigs, and other animals for food causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks and other forms of transportation combined. Researchers from the University of Chicago similarly concluded that a vegetarian diet is the most energy efficient, and the average American does more to reduce global warming emissions by not eating animal products than by switching to a hybrid car.

A 2007 journal published by the American Dietetic Association found "meat protein production required 26 times more water than vegetable protein on rain-fed lands." The journal further states that dieticians "can encourage eating that is both healthful and conserving of soil, water, and energy by emphasizing plant sources of protein and foods that have been produced with fewer agricultural inputs."

"Livestock are one of the most significant contributors to today's most serious environmental problems. Urgent action is required to remedy the situation."

---Union Nations' Food and Agriculture Association

A single dairy cow produces approximately 120 pounds of wet manure per day, which is equivalent to that of 20 to 40 humans.

70% of the grain grown and 50% of the water consumed in the U.S. are used by the meat industry. (Audubon Society)

On average 990 liters of water are required to produce one liter of milk. (United Nations)

Over 260 million acres of U.S. forest have been cleared to grow grain for livestock. (Greenpeace)

It takes nearly one gallon of fossil fuel and 5,200 gallons of water to produce just one pound of conventionally fed beef. (Mother Jones)

Farmed animals produce an estimated 1.4 billion tons of fecal waste each year in the U.S. Much of this untreated waste pollutes the land and water.

The number of animals killed for food in the United States is 70 times larger than the number of animals killed in laboratories, 30 times larger than the number killed by hunters and trappers, and 500 times larger than the number of animals killed in animal pounds.

“If anyone wants to save the planet,” says Paul McCartney in a PETA interview, “all they have to do is stop eating meat. That’s the single most important thing you could do. It’s staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty. Let’s do it! Linda was right. Going veggie is the single best idea for the new century.”

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It's not enough just to eat protein-rich foods; don't you need to make sure you're eating all the amino acids? (that's why people eat rice with beans, etc.)

Does anyone know the deal with this? Which foods have all the amino acids, and which do you need to eat with other foods? Seems like getting protein is trickier than I thought.

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...and they are maken me hungry!
and healthy eating is a good thing.

dietary variety and subtle changes that arent really changes is the spice of life

keep the articles coming Sara

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The following quotes, facts, figures, and statistics are excerpted from Please Don't Eat the Animals (2007) by Jennifer Horsman and Jaime Flowers:

"A reduction in beef and other meat consumption is the most potent single act you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources. Our choices do matter: What's healthiest for each of us personally is also healthiest for the life support system of our precious, but wounded planet."

---John Robbins, author, Diet for a New America, and President, EarthSave Foundation

One study puts animal waste in the United States to between 2.4 trillion to 3.9 trillion pounds per year. The United states produces 15,000 pounds of manure per person. This is 130 times the amount of waste produced by the entire human population of the United States.

A 1,000-cow dairy can produce approximately 120,000 pounds of waste per day. This is the functional equivalent of the amount of sanitary waste produced by a city of 20,000 people.

A 20,000-chicken factory produces about 2.4 million pounds of manure a year. Poultry factories are one of the fastest growing industries throughout Asia.

One pig excretes nearly three gallons of waste per day, or 2.5 times the average human's daily total. One hog farm with 50,000 pigs in France produces more waste than the entire city of Los Angeles, and some pig farms are much larger.

Factory farm pollution is the primary source of damage to coastal waters in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Scientists report that over sixty percent of the coastal waters in the United States are moderately to severely degraded from factory farm nutrient pollution. This pollution creates oxygen-depleted dead zones, which are huge areas of ocean devoid of aquatic life.

Meat production causes deforestation, which then contributes to global warming. Trees convert carbon dioxide into oxygen, and the destruction of forests around the globe to make room for grazing cattle furthers the greenhouse effect. The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations reports that the annual rate of tropical deforestation has increased from 9 million hectares in 1980 to 16.8 million hectares in 1990, and unfortunately, this destruction has accelerated since then. By 1994, a staggering 200 million hectares of rainforest had been destroyed in South America just for cattle.

"The impact of countless hooves and mouths over the years has done more to alter the type of vegetation and land forms of the West than all the water projects, strip mines, power plants, freeways, and sub-division developments combined."

---Philip Fradkin, in Audubon, National Audubon Society, New York

Agricultural meat production generates air pollution. As manure decomposes, it releases over 400 volatile organic compounds, many of which are extremely harmful to human health. Nitrogen, a major by-product of animal wastes, changes to ammonia as it escapes into the air, and this is a major source of acid rain. Worldwide, livestock produce over 30 million tons of ammonia. Hydrogen sulfide, another chemical released from animal waste, can cause irreversible neurological damage, even at low levels.

The World Conservation Union lists over 1,000 different fish species that are threatened or endangered. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimate, over 60 percent of the world's fish species are either fully exploited or depleted. Commercial fish populations of cod, hake, haddock, and flounder have fallen by as much as 95 percent in the north Atlantic.

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The United States and Europe lose several billion tons of topsoil each year from cropland and grazing land, and 84 percent of this erosion is caused by livestock agriculture. While this soil is theoretically a renewable resource, we are losing soil at a much faster rate than we are able to replace it. It takes 100 to 500 years to produce one inch of topsoil, but due to livestock grazing and feeding, farming areas can lose up to six inches of topsoil a year.

Livestock production affects a startling 70 to 85 percent of the land area of the United States, United Kingdom, and the European Union. That includes the public and private rangeland used for grazing, as well as the land used to produce the crops that feed the animals. By comparison, urbanization only affects 3 percent of the United States land area, slightly larger for the European Union and the United Kingdom. Meat production consumes the world's land resources.

Half of all fresh water worldwide is used for thirsty livestock. Producing eight ounces of beef requires an unimaginable 25,000 liters of water, or the water necessary for one pound of steak equals the water consumption of the average household for a year.

The United States government spends $10 million each year to kill an estimated 100,000 wild animals, including coyotes, foxes, bobcats, badgers, bears, and mountain lions just to placate ranchers who don't want these animals killing their livestock. The cost far outweighs the damage to livestock that these predators cause.

The Worldwatch Institute estimates one pound of steak from a steer raised in a feedlot costs: five pounds of grain, a whopping 2,500 gallons of water, the energy equivalent of a gallon of gasoline, and about 34 pounds of topsoil.

33 percent of our nation's raw materials and fossil fuels go into livestock destined for slaughter. In a vegan economy, only 2 percent of our resources will go to the production of food.

"It seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many babies being born in the second- and third-world nations while virtually ignoring the overpopulation of cattle and the realities of a food chain that robs the poor of sustenance to feed the rich a steady diet of grain-fed meat."

---Jeremy Rifkin, author, Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture, and president of the Greenhouse Crisis Foundation

Lester Brown of the Overseas Development Council calculates that if Americans reduced their meat consumption by only 10 percent per year, it would free at least 12 million tons of grain for human consumption--or enough to feed 60 million people.

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All this stuff about being vegetarian to protect the environment is a load of CRAP. Intensive rotational grazing with cattle mimics the effects of wild herd animals and is not only carbon neutral, but if done right, locks carbon up in the soil where it further benefits the plants growing. You should read about it sometime.

I grew up with free range beef. Cattle were turned lose to pasture and were often grazing with deer, wild turkeys, and other animals. All the while nearby veggie farms were fenced off and any intruding wild animals were shot. That is right your vegetarian produce is 100% guaranteed to have the blood of wild animals on it.

Yes, we need to get rid of feedlots. Yes, we need to treat animals humanely. But if you think your veggies come without any environmental and wildlife impact you need to pull your head "out" and look around.

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Excerpted from

"The Comparative Anatomy of Eating," by Milton R. Mills, MD


Which category are humans most suited for?

*Facial Muscles*
CARNIVORE: Reduced to allow wide mouth gape
OMNIVORE: Reduced
HERBIVORE: Well-developed
HUMAN: Well-developed

*Jaw Type*
CARNIVORE: Angle not expanded
HERBIVORE: Expanded angle
OMNIVORE: Angle not expanded
HUMAN: Expanded angle

*Jaw Joint Location*
CARNIVORE: On same plane as molar teeth
HERBIVORE: Above the plane of the molars
OMNIVORE: On same plane as molar teeth
HUMAN: Above the plane of the molars

*Jaw Motion*
CARNIVORE: Shearing; minimal side-to-side motion
HERBIVORE: No shear; good side-to-side, front-to-back
OMNIVORE: Shearing; minimal side-to-side
HUMAN: No shear; good side-to-side, front-to-back

*Major Jaw Muscles*
CARNIVORE: Temporalis
HERBIVORE: Masseter and pterygoids
OMNIVORE: Temporalis
HUMAN: Masseter and pterygoids

*Mouth Opening vs. Head Size*
CARNIVORE: Large
HERBIVORE: Small
OMNIVORE: Large
HUMAN: Small

*Teeth: Incisors*
CARNIVORE: Short and pointed
HERBIVORE: Broad, flattened and spade shaped
OMNIVORE: Short and pointed
HUMAN: Broad, flattened and spade shaped

*Teeth: Canines*
CARNIVORE: Long, sharp and curved
HERBIVORE: Dull and short or long (for defense), or none
OMNIVORE: Long, sharp and curved
HUMAN: Short and blunted

*Teeth: Molars*
CARNIVORE: Sharp, jagged and blade shaped
HERBIVORE: Flattened with cusps vs complex surface
OMNIVORE: Sharp blades and/or flattened
HUMAN: Flattened with nodular cusps

*Chewing*
CARNIVORE: None; swallows food whole
HERBIVORE: Extensive chewing necessary
OMNIVORE: Swallows food whole and/or simple crushing
HUMAN: Extensive chewing necessary

*Saliva*
CARNIVORE: No digestive enzymes
HERBIVORE: Carbohydrate digesting enzymes
OMNIVORE: No digestive enzymes
HUMAN: Carbohydrate digesting enzymes

*Stomach Type*
CARNIVORE: Simple
HERBIVORE: Simple or multiple chambers
OMNIVORE: Simple
HUMAN: Simple

*Stomach Acidity*
CARNIVORE: Less than or equal to pH 1 with food in stomach
HERBIVORE: pH 4 to 5 with food in stomach
OMNIVORE: Less than or equal to pH 1 with food in stomach
HUMAN: pH 4 to 5 with food in stomach

*Stomach Capacity*
CARNIVORE: 60% to 70% of total volume of digestive tract
HERBIVORE: Less than 30% of total volume of digestive tract
OMNIVORE: 60% to 70% of total volume of digestive tract
HUMAN: 21% to 27% of total volume of digestive tract

*Length of Small Intestine*
CARNIVORE: 3 to 6 times body length
HERBIVORE: 10 to more than 12 times body length
OMNIVORE: 4 to 6 times body length
HUMAN: 10 to 11 times body length

*Colon*
CARNIVORE: Simple, short and smooth
HERBIVORE: Long, complex; may be sacculated
OMNIVORE: Simple, short and smooth
HUMAN: Long, sacculated

*Liver*
CARNIVORE: Can detoxify vitamin A
HERBIVORE: Cannot detoxify vitamin A
OMNIVORE: Can detoxify vitamin A
HUMAN: Cannot detoxify vitamin A

*Kidney*
CARNIVORE: Extremely concentrated urine
HERBIVORE: Moderately concentrated urine
OMNIVORE: Extremely concentrated urine
HUMAN: Moderately concentrated urine

*Nails*
CARNIVORE: Sharp claws
HERBIVORE: Flattened nails or blunt hooves
OMNIVORE: Sharp claws
HUMAN: Flattened nails

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We have Greenwheat Freekeh as an alternative to add many dishes. Low GI, low carb, high in fibre and rich in prebiotic properties.

Tastes nice too.

See if you can find it in the US.

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It also a hundred pages of recipes that border on the magical - breakfast, lunch, dinner, soups, salads, main courses and deserts; particularly good are the hummus, lentils and black bean recipes. (No American knows what the he__ a legume is, so forget that). You will _love_ the hummus, lentils and black beans. Got comfort food?

Almonds are out - with all nuts.

Interestingly, it also guarantees no more worrying about weight ever again. How? A Big Mac is a thousand calories, which is out. To eat that number of calories using legal foods would mean eating twenty baked potatoes. Most normal humans give up at four.

The 'secret' is the difference between green vegetables at one calorie per gram and starches at three to four calories a gram versus meat and oils and nine calories a gram.

Magic
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I grew up eating meat. Vegetables were these frozen green things that were boiled in water until they were a green slime. I hated vegetables and the very idea of delicious vegetables was anathema. Then two things happened. One, a friend turned me onto a spice called Dry Harissa. Two, I decided I wanted to live past 55...

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Although it is an agnostic moral philosophy (i.e., no recognition of a personal God) a few centuries older than Christianity, Buddhism teaches a consistent ethic of reverence for all life. No wars have ever been waged in the name of Buddhism. Similarly, the act of abortion is explicitly condemned in the Buddhist canonical scriptures. Sir Edwin Arnold’s poetic biography on Siddhartha Gautama, The Light of Asia, caused quite a controversy in Victorian England: centuries before Jesus, an earlier teacher lived “the Christ life.”

The ethical teachings of the Buddha are quite similar to those found in the Gospel of Jesus: One must never be proud nor harbor anger against anyone. He who humbles himself shall be exalted, while the one who exalts himself shall be degraded. Harsh language must never be used against anyone.

Avoid lust, anger and greed. One should not scrutinize the mote in a neighbor’s eye without first noticing the beam in one’s own. One must “turn the other cheek” if attacked or abused. One’s own possessions must be shared with the less fortunate. If a man obtained the whole world and its riches, he still would not be satisfied, nor would this save him.

In 261 B.C., the Indian emperor Ashoka witnessed firsthand the innumerable casualties he caused during one of his many military campaigns. His heart was filled with grief. He converted to Buddhism. 19th century scholar and writer H.G. Wells considered Ashoka’s conversion to Buddhism one of the most significant events in world history.

Ashoka, formerly a bloody and ruthless emperor, became a remarkably kind and gentle leader. Ashoka established some of the first animal rights laws. He stopped the royal hunt, stopped the sacrifice of animals in his capital city, stopped the killing of animals for food in the royal kitchens, and gave up the eating of meat. Ashoka made it illegal to kill many species of animals, such as parrots, ducks, geese, bats, turtles, squirrels, monkeys and rhinos. He forbade the killing of pregnant animals, or animals that were nursing their young. He declared certain days to be “non-killing days,” on which fish could not be caught, nor any other animals killed. He established wells and watering holes, places of rest and hospitals for humans and animals alike.

Ashoka educated his people to have compassion for animals, and to refrain from killing or harming them. He sent missionaries to all the neighboring kingdoms to teach mercy, compassion and nonviolence. Through Ashoka’s patronage, Buddhism was spread all over the Indian subcontinent. Buddhism would eventually reach the rest of Asia; today there are an estimated 300 to 600 million Buddhists worldwide.

The first precept of Buddhism is: “Do not kill, but rather preserve and cherish all life.” There is an ancient poem, reputed to be the only text ever written by the Buddha himself, which states:

“Let creatures all, all things that live, all beings of whatever kind, see nothing that will bode them ill. May naught of evil come to them.”

The Buddhist emperor Ashoka (268-223 BC) declared in one of his famous Pillar Edicts: “I have enforced the law against killing certain animals..The greatest progress of Righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.”

The Dalai Lama has said, “I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat.”

Mahayana Buddhism supports the vegetarian way of life. According to the Mahaparinirvana Sutra: “The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion.”

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The Lankavatara Sutra says:

“For the sake of love of purity, the bodhisattva should refrain from eating flesh, which is born from semen, blood, etc. For fear of causing terror to living beings let the bodhisattva, who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh…It is not true that meat is proper food and permissible when the animal was not killed by himself, when he did not order others to kill it, when it was not specifically meant for him…Again, there may be some people in the future who…being under the influence of the taste for meat will string together in various ways many sophisticated arguments to defend meat-eating…But…meat-eating in any form, in any manner, and in any place is unconditionally and once and for all prohibited…Meat-eating I have not permitted to anyone, I do not permit, I will not permit…”

The Surangama Sutra says:

“The reason for practicing dhyana and seeking to attain samadhi is to escape from the suffering of life. But in seeking to escape from suffering ourselves, why should we inflict it upon others? Unless you can control your minds that even the thought of brutal unkindness and killing is abhorrent, you will never be able to escape from the bondage of the world’s life…After my parinirvana in the final kalpa different kinds of ghosts will be encountered everywhere deceiving people and teaching them that they can eat meat and still attain enlightenment…How can a bhikshu, who hopes to become a deliverer of others, himself be living on the flesh of other sentient beings?”

Contemporary Hindu spiritual masters have taught us that if one wishes to eat cow’s flesh (or the flesh of any other animal for that matter), one should wait until the animal dies of natural causes, rather than take the life of a fellow creature. This indicates that we are vegetarian first and foremost out of nonviolence toward and compassion for animals, rather than because we follow “dietary laws.”

Avoidance of onions and garlic is not limited to Hindus in India; there is a tradition of avoiding these foods in China, antedating the arrival of Buddhism. ‘Enjoy’ Vegetarian Restaurant in San Francisco, CA is run by Chinese Buddhists, and they do not serve onions or garlic in any of their preparations. However, they do serve mushrooms!

In Theravada Buddhist countries (Burma, Ceylon, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Tibet, Malaya), although the monks are forbidden to kill animals, they beg for food and are expected to eat whatever is offered them. Contrasting the Mahayana Buddhist countries (e.g., China) with the Theravada, in A Vegetarian Sourcebook, author Keith Akers writes:

“In the Mahayana countries, the custom regarding monks is completely different, reflecting a different attitude towards meat consumption. The Mahayana Buddhist monks do not beg for food at all; they prepare their own food, which is either bought, grown, or collected as rent. The Mahayana monks in China were strictly vegetarian in ancient times and remain so today.

“Dietary abstinence from meat was an ancient Chinese tradition that antedated the arrival of Buddhism. In China, all animal foods, onions, and alcohol were either forbidden or customarily avoided. Animal products were avoided in dress as they were in diet. There was a prohibition on the use of silk or leather (not observed in Theravada countries).

“Not only are the Mahayana Buddhist monks vegetarian, but so are many Buddhist lay people in China. Lay people usually receive a lay ordination, in which they must take from one to five vows. Almost everyone takes the first vow, which is not to take the life of any sentient creature.”

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Of course it is impossible to source any "humane cheese" or dairy --- In order to be economically viable the females must be kept constantly impregnated. This is a traumatic and painful procedure... The industry calls the restraining mechanism "the rape rack". The cow also indures pain at birth as any animal does. Her calf is seperated from her at only a few days/hours old. This causes immense distress as the milk was intended for her baby. Her baby depending on sex is either female and placed within the herd (if needed) or sent to slaughter immediately with undesirable male calfs. The "lucky" male calves get to spend a few months in a dark box, fed an anemic diet then sent to slaughter. There is absolutely no way that "humane dairy" can ever exist. www.humanemyth.org

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There is a huge problem pushing and recommending soy products across the board. All soy products contain a chemical compound known as goitrogens. Goitrogens wipe out either natural or Rx thyroid hormones, meaning eventually soy will make one hypothyroid. There is a world wide epidemic of thyroid disease, thyroid cancer, with thyroid related obesity such as Oprah battles and soy only makes it all worse. For anyone with thyroid disease, soy is the last thing to eat. this is not an urban legend, i write books on health. AND soy for kids stunts the growth of their sexual organs, ie bad for kids.

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"Global hunger could be directly attributed to meat-eating." ---Chrissie Hynde

Half the world's population does not receive an adequate amount of food to eat. Ten to twenty million die annually of hunger and its effects. The Institute for Food and Development Policy reports that, "Forty thousand children starve to death on this planet every day," or one child every two seconds.

The livestock population of the United States today consumes enough grain and soybeans to feed over five times the entire human population of the country. We feed these animals over 80% of the corn we grow, and over 95% of the oats. Less than half the harvested agricultural acreage in the United States is used to grow food for people. Most of it is used to grow livestock feed.

Ronald J. Sider of Evangelicals for Social Action, in his 1977 book, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, pointed out that 220 million Americans were eating enough food (largely because of the high consumption of grain-fed livestock) to feed over one billion people in the poorer countries.

The world's cattle alone, not to mention pigs and chickens, consume a quantity of food equal to the caloric needs of 8.7 billion people. It takes 16 pounds of grain to produce one pound of beef. According to Department of Agriculture statistics, one acre of land can grow 20,000 pounds of potatoes. That same acre of land, if used to grow cattlefeed, can produce less than 165 pounds of beef.

In his book, The Hungry Planet, Georg Bergstrom points out that protein-starved underdeveloped nations export more protein to wealthy nations than they receive. He calls this "the protein swindle." Ninety percent of the world's fish meal catch, for example, is exported to rich countries. One-third of Africa's peanut crop winds up in the stomachs of European livestock. Half the world's cereal crop is fed to livestock and the United States annually imports one million tons of vegetable protein from Third World nations--just to feed its farm animals.

Bergstrom writes: "Sometimes one wonders how many Americans and Western Europeans have grasped the fact that quite a few of their beef steaks, quarts of milk, dozens of eggs, and hundreds of broilers are the result, not of their agriculture, but of the approximately two million metric tons of protein, mostly of high quality, which astute Western businessmen channel away from the needy and hungry."

Jeremy Rifkin, author of a dozen influential books and President of the Foundation on Economic Trends, writes in his 1992 bestseller Beyond Beef:

"Cattle and other livestock are devouring much of the grain produced on the planet. It need be emphasized that this is a new phenomenon, unlike anything ever experienced before.

"Contrary to popular belief, the poor are getting poorer each year...Increased poverty has meant increased malnutrition. On the African continent, nearly one in every four human beings is malnourished. In Latin America, nearly one out of every seven people goes to bed hungry each night. In Asia and the Pacific, 28 percent of the people border on starvation, experiencing the gnawing pain of a perpetual hunger."

"In the Near East, one in ten people is underfed. Chronic hunger now affects upwards of 1.3 billion people, according to the world Health Organization--a statistic all the more striking in a world where one third of all the grain produced is being fed to cattle and other livestock. Never before in human history has such a large percentage of our species--nearly 25 percent--been malnourished.

"The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains represents an...evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer lasting than any past examples of violence inflicted by men against their fellow human beings."

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As an intern with the non-profit Meatless Monday, I was thrilled to see that you have listed different ways to make going meatless nutritious. One of the main tenets of Meatless Monday is exactly that, to ensure that cutting meat consumption enables a healthier body and environment! There are some delicious recipes that make use of some of those ingredients you have listed, like tempeh, with these Eggplant Tempeh Tacos: http://www.meatlessmonday.com/eggplant-tempeh-tacos/
For more on the campaign, check out the Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpnKeYmR1NM.
Thanks! Ashwini

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Ms Irani din't do her homework:
1. Tempeh a fermented soy) is not tofu.
2. Soy protein is not a safe food to eat. America's fascination with soy is a consequence of ADM and CARGILL'S multimillion dollar eat soy campaign. Orientals eat very little soy, rather they eat fermented soy which is safe.
3. She did not mention the two best proteins out there, eggs and whey. Athletes and body builders for years have been using both. Why? Because they have the best amino acids profiles, comparable to mothers milk (the best yet not attainable).
There was no mention of Quorn, a mycoprotein with an amino profile very similar to meat and tastes like chicken. Quorn is the leading meat substitute in England.

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Seitan is my favorite meat or chicken substitute.

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