Researchers have linked dietary data from over 55,000 individuals with data on the environmental impacts of the foods they eat. The team, from the Livestock, Environment and People (LEAP) project at the University of Oxford, found that the dietary impacts of vegans were around a third of those of high meat eaters. They also saw a 30% difference between high- and low-meat diets for most of the measures of environmental harm.
  • darq@kbin.social
    162·
    1 year ago

    Plant-based diets are usually superior, health-wise, to meat-based diets.

    There are a couple of nutrients that vegan diets at one point may have fell short in, like B12 and D being common examples, but at this point those are present in fortified vegan milks or breads.

    The only other ones I can think of off the top of my head are a fatty acid present in fish, that is easily supplemented. Or less essential nutrients like taurine, which are also easily supplemented if one finds that they really need higher levels.

    • max@feddit.nlEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Exactly. Most livestock gets supplemented B12 anyway, since the ground/soil is too clean for it to occur naturally like in the past. Might as well cut out the middlemancow.

      • darq@kbin.social
        31·
        1 year ago

        Not really. Protein is not something particularly difficult in a reasonably balanced vegan diet, for most people. There are plenty of dietary sources of protein in vegan cooking.

        Anybody requiring particularly high levels of protein is probably already supplementing it. Usually with vegan sources anyway.

        Of all the possible deficiencies in a vegan diet, protein is by far the least of people’s, already small, worries.

        • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          I didn’t say they don’t, I said it’s difficult for people who don’t know how. You have to spend time on education when you go vegan.