🥩 Food Myths: Plant protein vs animal protein
Newsletter #5
Our mission is to promote the benefits of a meat-based diet as a counter to the anti-meat rhetoric that’s pushing modern humans in the wrong direction. We gain ground by introducing more people to this results-driven way of life.
🥩 Hello Meatlings,
Chicken vs. Chik’n. Steak vs. Beyond Meat. Milk vs Mylk.
The food industry wants us to believe that their version of whatever animal alternative science experiment they create is equivalent to the real deal. But don't be fooled.
There are many reasons why they are different, one bieng the obvious fact that most plant-based meals comprise nothing more than ultra-processed junk foods. Let’s analzyze differences in the protein offered by plants and animals. 👇
First, animal products have the nine essential amino acids: the protein-building blocks your body can't make and needs to get from food.
Plant sources require combining foods like rice and beans to obtain the essential amino acids. How does a vegan ensure they get enough essential amino acids?
They often don’t, or they have to supplement.
Second, animal products provide nonessential amino acids. Although the body also produces these, we can get even higher amounts from food.
For instance, your body naturally creates about 1 g every day. Eating 1.5-2 lbs of animal meat per day can provide an additional 3-5 g.
Creatine is associated with improved memory, strength, exercise performance, lower blood sugar levels, and more. Creatine doesn't exist in plants. The other amino acids deficient in the plant-based diet are carnosine, carnitine, and taurine.
Third, animal-based proteins are more protein-dense. They are concentrated protein sources in terms of protein per calorie compared to plant proteins. Check out these two charts:
With a worldwide epidemic of diabetes and pre-diabetes, obtaining adequate protein that also requires a large amount of carbohydrates isn’t the most common sense option.
Lastly, protein from animals is more bioavailable, meaning there is more of it accessible to use when compared to the same amount of protein from something like beans.
✌🏻and ribeyes,
-Miranda MS, LN & The Yes2Meat Team
Below:
📰 News + 🔬 Research: Iron deficiency is rampant in America, the United Nations promotes eating animal sources for essential micronutrients; and a recap on why seed oils stink.
🏛️ Legislative Updates: Hear what Nutrition Coalition is up to in DC and what you can do to support real food legislation.
📩 Advocacy: actionables that you can do now to support regenerative agriculture
💯 New CEO Corner: Long termers win
Onward!
📰 News & 🔬 Research
📈 Forty Percent of U.S. Girls, Young Women Are Iron Deficient: Studies have shown that dietary iron intake in the U.S. has dropped over the past decade. Women are at a higher risk of iron deficiency due to their menstruation. Meat, fish and poultry are high in heme iron, which is the most easily absorbed. A simple ferritin blood test can identify iron deficiency.
🕵🏻♀️ FAO Report Concludes Meat, Eggs, and Milk are Essential Sources of Nutrients: A new report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) highlights the important role animal-source foods play in providing essential micronutrients, such as vitamin B12 and zinc. The report emphasizes the importance of these nutrient-dense foods for low- and middle-income countries, but let’s not forget that women, children, and the elderly also need these foods for optimal health.
🫛 Soybean Oil, how did it get here?
🧐 Seed Oils = Diabetes + Worse: Research is starting to uncover that these modern oils are wreaking all sorts of havoc from insulin resistance at fat cells to heart disease, autoimmune disease and cancer.
🔗 Link Corner
💀 What are Americans dying from? Mostly preventable things.
🐑 We've been told for decades that eating red meat will give us cancer, heart disease, and all kinds of other health ailments. But what if it's not true?
🏛️ Legislative Updates
From the Nutrition Coalition: Since 2017, the Nutrition Coalition has advocated for Dietary Guidelines for all Americans, including those with obesity and diabetes, and we recently secured a small, but noteworthy win. The House Appropriations report for 2024 acknowledges the need for our guidelines to address not just disease prevention, for healthy Americans but also disease treatment, for the 60% of adults with a chronic disease. The report includes the following language:
The Committee recognizes that the Dietary Guidelines for Americans is designed to include all Americans. Given the increase in chronic disease, the Committee directs USDA to include in the 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans a dietary pattern for the treatment of diet-related diseases, including obesity and diabetes, based exclusively on rigorous data.
To be technical for a minute, report language is non-binding, but it makes a powerful statement about the intention of Congress and is precedent setting. We can now say that Congress has, for the first time, acknowledged that the Dietary Guidelines ignore the majority of the adult population and will point to this language in future advocacy efforts.
📩 Advocacy
Kiss the Ground’s advocacy group, Regenerate America, has a few requests:
For our top proposals to make it into the final farm bill, we need more bipartisan support, so we are calling on organizations, businesses, farms, and nonprofits that care about supporting farmers in their efforts to regenerate land to please consider signing on to and sharing the following letters:
Training for Regenerative Agriculture in NRCS programs (TRAIN Act) sign-on letter: This bill directs NRCS to undertake cooperative agreements to establish an education program to train NRCS staff and technical service providers (TSPs) on how to regenerate soil, reduce chemical inputs, increase biodiversity, and increase on-farm resilience.
Farmer to Farmer Soil Health Networks sign-on letter: This bill amends the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) to provide much-needed funding for peer learning opportunities.
Streamlining Conservation Practice Standards Act sign-on letter - This bill will help bridge the gap between research and practice to better support producers across the country in adopting conservation practices.
Twitterings
The reach of this post shows how people are waking up.
You can’t hide the results. Those that eat whole-food, animal-based diets get better results than those that don’t. This is as “scientific” as it gets. Really.
Instead, people think Science is done in a lab by researchers. Modern research, at this point, is mostly about money. Who funds it? Who is funded and paid? So on and so forth.
🎥 Hulu Farm Rebellion
Benedikt Bösel was an investment banker, but then the financial crisis hit, and with it the question of meaning.
Today, he is a farmer, a visionary, and the head of a young team that is testing a radical new type of agriculture in the fight against climate change.
Together with his team of experts, he wants to prove that their regenerative experiments can be a role model for the whole world.
🪣 Ken on The Meat Mafia Podcast
Ken Berry and Zane Griggs are two of the most influential thought leaders in the world of diet and nutrition. When it comes to eating a diet to live a badass life into your 50s (and beyond), Ken and Zane are the guys to talk to.
As you'll hear in our conversation with Ken and Zane, food is the bedrock of the quality of our lives. It either dilutes our energy over time or sustains it.
While most modern health care focuses on prescriptive measures to maintain people's quality of life, Ken and Zane want to put the power back into your own hands. Check out Ken and Zane's new book Kicking Ass After 50.
🤝 CEO Corner
Colin on advice, feedback, and musings.
Long-term thinking and actions.
Long = ten or more years.
For every decision you make, consider the 10-year implication. Will you be better off or worse off in 10 years?
Then choose better.
Avoid things that make you worse later.
This applies to finances, health, relationships, toxic people, your job, investments, etc.
Humans are not designed to think long-term, which is why most don’t
The genetic anomalies that do, win.
💻 Money/Bitcoin
The Consumer Price Index is the primary measure of inflation.
They have been reporting that the CPI is going down.
But it doesn’t include housing or energy. From their website:
Additionally, for analytical purposes, the CPI is also divided into food, energy, and all items less food and energy. The CPI for all items less food and energy gets considerable attention as a measure of underlying core inflation, which is not subject to the volatile movements of food and energy prices.
Food and energy are the closest measures of true inflation due to their proof of work, low margins, and hard-to-produce natures. Compare that to something like Big Tech or other sectors that can resist lowering prices for various reasons, and you see how the CPI is a sham. It doesn’t include huge MUST-HAVE expenses for every human alive.
I looked at my CC statement the other day. I don’t look at it often. But I thought it was around $4000. I’ll often have a rough estimate of what I’ve spent from the last time I paid some of the balance off.
Then I saw a $9700 balance when I logged in to see why my card was getting declined.
So I scanned the transactions. Nothing seemed crazy. It was just a CONSTANT FLOW OF EXPENSES. Health, food, Prime Video rentals, gas, random Amazon stuff, on and on and on it went.
I can’t fathom how those struggling financially must feel like there’s no hope. Breaks my heart.
And this is why, fundamentally, I’m a Bitcoiner—because I don’t buy that those rich should be able to steal from humanity through the money printer.
It’s evil. It’s wrong.
And yet it’s now the norm. 😒
🚨 Biohack
The Wild designed us. We are designed for the Wild.
This is why we most humans are sick today—because we've removed ourselves from the Wild.
The ten reWild Principles of Human Health:
☀️ Light
😩 Stress
☢️ Toxins
⛓️ Community
🏢 Environment
🍎 Food
🛌 Sleep
🏃 Movement
🌲 Nature
🦶🏻 Barefoot
Read more in the reWild Your Life guide.
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