The Environmental Impacts of Plant-Based Meat Substitutes
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2021-01-27

Environmental assessment of 50 different plant-based meats show them to be vastly more sustainable. A look at the impact of meat substitutes, including Beyond Meat and Impossible Burger.

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This is the first of nine videos in a series on plant-based meats that includes: 
• Are Beyond Meat and the Impossible Burger Healthful? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-beyond-meat-and-the-impossible-burger-healthy)
• Are Pea and Soy Protein Isolates Harmful? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-pea-and-soy-protein-isolates-harmful)
• Plant-Based Meat Substitutes Put to the Test (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant-based-meat-substitutes-put-to-the-test)
• The Health Effects of Mycoprotein (Quorn) Products vs. BCAAs in Meat (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-health-effects-of-mycoprotein-quorn-products-vs-bcaas-in-meat)
• What About the Heme in Impossible Burgers? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-about-the-heme-in-impossible-burgers)
• Does Heme Iron Cause Cancer? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/does-heme-iron-cause-cancer)
• Heme-Induced N-Nitroso Compounds and Fat Oxidation (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/heme-induced-n-nitroso-compounds-and-fat-oxidation)
• Is Heme the Reason Meat Is Carcinogenic? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-heme-iron-the-reason-meat-is-carcinogenic)

If you don’t want to wait for all nine of the videos in this series to roll out on NutritionFacts.org, you can get them right now in a digital download (https://drgreger.org/collections/videos/products/plant-based-and-cultivated-meat-digital) from my webinar a few months ago. 

For background on food and climate change, see Diet and Climate Change: Cooking Up a Storm (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/diet-and-climate-change-cooking-up-a-storm/). 

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-Michael Greger, MD FACLM

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