Speaking of Vegan – I’m not vegan by the way but found this article really interesting – But just like Confined Feeding Animal Operations aren’t the answer to a healthy planet, neither is veganism. Vegan diets ten to demand a higher quantity of cereal grains and soy, crops which wreak havoc on our ecosystem due to mass farming techniques. On the other hand, grass-grazing animals can nourish the stripped soil and even reverse desertification! Real Food > Fake Food

How do you create cheese, milk, and meat without cheese, milk, and meat? With a slew of non-foods including stabilizers, gums, thickeners and highly processed protein extracts. Yummy.

Let’s consider the example of Earth Balance, a non-dairy butter often used in vegan diets. Ingredients in an Earth Balance: Palm fruit oil, canola oil, safflower oil, flax oil, olive oil, salt, natural flavor, pea protein, sunflower lecithin, lactic acid, annatto color. Ingredients in butter: butter. Humans have been eating butter for thousands of years. We only started producing canola oil in the last century. Butter is real food, but canola oil is a freak of nature. Similarly, pea protein and natural flavors are highly processed non-foods. Fortunately, more and more people are becoming aware that processed vegan products are just that – highly processed. Still, many vegans reach for these options on a regular basis.

Read more facts here if you’re thinking of eating a vegan diet –

http://empoweredsustenance.com/is-vegan-healthy/ #glutenfreelady #isveganhealthy

Enjoy!

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