Vegan Documentarian Tells the Inside Story of the Lab-Grown Meat Industry
Liz Marshall’s latest release, Meat the Future, will be available for streaming April 5 on Apple TV, Amazon, and Google Play. The feature length-documentary charts the birth of a new technological innovation that grows meat from stem cells instead of animals, reducing the need for industrial agriculture and ending slaughter. She tells the story through Uma Valeti, a cardiologist-turned food entrepreneur who now heads one of the world’s leading cell-cultivated meat companies, Upside Foods (formerly called Memphis Meats). I spoke with the film director about her new documentary, the next steps, and what cell-cult...
Source: TIME: Science - April 5, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Aryn Baker Tags: Uncategorized climate change Climate Is Everything Food & Agriculture healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

How to live longer: Studies suggest vegetarians are more likely to avoid premature death
MANY people are keen to find diets that help them live long and healthy lives. Indeed, some studies have found that eating a vegetarian based diet may help people in this aim. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - April 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The Vegan Diet Is Popular but Not Automatically Healthy The Vegan Diet Is Popular but Not Automatically Healthy
A nutritional scientist describes the various vegetarian and vegan diets, as well as the particular nutritional considerations that some of them entail.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines)
Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - March 23, 2022 Category: Primary Care Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care News Source Type: news

Vegetarians have 14% lower cancer risk than meat-eaters, study finds
Oxford University research also finds pescatarians have 10% reduced risk compared with those who eat meat regularlyVegetarians have a 14% lower chance of developing cancer than carnivores, according to a large study that links meat-eating to a heightened risk of the disease.A team of researchers from Oxford University analysed data on more than 470,000 Britons and found that pescatarians had a 10% reduced risk. Compared with people who eat meat regularly – defined as more than five times a week – those who consumed small amounts had a 2% lower risk of developing cancer, the study found.Low meat-eaters – who consume m...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 24, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Denis Campbell Health policy editor Tags: Vegetarianism Cancer Meat Health Medical research Food Source Type: news

Is it safe to raise my child vegan or vegetarian?
As more adults adopt vegetarian diets and vegan diets, experts say that more young people are being raised without animal products. But many are unsure if this is a healthy choice for children. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - February 12, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jillian Pretzel Source Type: news

Most of Restaurant Menu Must Be Vegetarian Before Meat Eaters Make the Switch
FRIDAY, Dec. 24, 2021 -- Meat eaters are far more apt to choose plant-based foods at restaurants if menus are at least 75% vegetarian, according to a new study. Along with the health benefits, British researchers said getting more people to eat... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - December 24, 2021 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

Ghana: Not Everyone Can Be Vegan or Vegetarian(2)
[Ghanaian Times] This is the concluding part of the article published on December 13, 2021 issue of the paper. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 15, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news

B12 deficiency: The texture of your poo may be a warning sign that levels are low
OLDER adults, vegetarians, and those with autoimmune diseases are at higher risk of a vitamin B12 deficiency. However, anybody can fall short of the important vitamin, which may show up in the texture of your poo. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - December 15, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

How Your Post-Thanksgiving Diet Could Help Save the Planet
As you tuck into your Thanksgiving dinner, the kick-off event (at least for Americans) of the holiday season, spare a thought for the planet’s carbon waistline. Food production is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for more than a third of emissions worldwide — and a new study has given fresh insight into how small changes in the diet can have a big impact on food-related emissions. And even if it doesn’t inspire you to forgo the turkey and trimmings, it serves as a good reminder that a post-holiday pause on overindulgence might be just the kind of thanks Mother Earth might appreciate ...
Source: TIME: Health - November 24, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Aryn Baker Tags: Uncategorized climate change Climate Is Everything embargoed study healthscienceclimate Londontime overnight Source Type: news

ACG plans biggest vegetarian capsules unit in Maharashtra
Gelatin capsules are derived from cow or buffalo bones and hides, while cellulose from the bark of a tree, which through a chemical process is converted into water soluble material and moulded into a capsule. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - November 23, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Man ’s severe migraines ‘completely eliminated’ on plant-based diet
Migraines disappeared after man started diet that included lots of dark-green leafy vegetables, study showsHealth experts are calling for more research into diet and migraines after doctors revealed a patient who had suffered severe and debilitating headaches for more than a decade completely eliminated them after adopting a plant-based diet.He had tried prescribed medication, yoga and meditation, and cut out potential trigger foods in an effort to reduce the severity and frequency of his severe headaches – but nothing worked. The migraines made it almost impossible to perform his job, he said.Continue reading... (Source...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 18, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Andrew Gregory Health editor Tags: Nutrition Medical research Diets and dieting Life and style Health UK news World news US news Vegetarian food and drink Vegan food and drink Veganism Vegetables Vegetarianism Science Society Neuroscience Source Type: news

Counting Your Carbon Footprint One Meal At a Time
At the COP26 conference this year, there’s a lot of grumbling among activists that official venues are serving meat, even if it’s locally-sourced meat. Animal agriculture has an outsized impact on global warming—up to 14.5% of annual global CO2 emissions, depending on which metrics you include. But here in Glasgow, a serving of meat also comes with a lesson in carbon footprint economics. Attendees here at COP26 are now informed of the carbon impact of their meals as they peruse the menus. At one restaurant, I was offered a choice between the traditional Scottish meal of haggis, neeps and tatties (stuffed,...
Source: TIME: Science - November 9, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Aryn Baker/Glasgow Tags: Uncategorized climate change Climate Is Everything Source Type: news

Counting Your Carbon Footprint One Meal At a Time
At the COP26 conference this year, there’s a lot of grumbling among activists that official venues are serving meat, even if it’s locally-sourced meat. Animal agriculture has an outsized impact on global warming—up to 14.5% of annual global CO2 emissions, depending on which metrics you include. But here in Glasgow, a serving of meat also comes with a lesson in carbon footprint economics. Attendees here at COP26 are now informed of the carbon impact of their meals as they peruse the menus. At one restaurant, I was offered a choice between the traditional Scottish meal of haggis, neeps and tatties (stuffed,...
Source: TIME: Science - November 9, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Aryn Baker/Glasgow Tags: Uncategorized climate change Climate Is Everything Source Type: news

The Cow That Could Feed the Planet
The cows in Farmer John’s pasture lead an idyllic life. They roam through tree-shaded meadows, tearing up mouthfuls of clover while nursing their calves in tranquility. Tawny brown, compact and muscular, they are Limousins, a breed known for the quality of its meat and much sought-after by the high-end restaurants and butchers in the nearby food mecca of Maastricht, in the southernmost province of the Netherlands. In a year or two, meat from these dozen cows could end up on the plates of Maastricht’s better-known restaurants, but the cows themselves are not headed for the slaughterhouse. Instead, every few mont...
Source: TIME: Science - November 2, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Aryn Baker/Maastricht, Netherlands Tags: Uncategorized climate change Climate Is Everything feature Innovation Magazine Source Type: news

The Enduring Hope of Jane Goodall
In the early years of World War II, when Jane Goodall was around 6 years old, she was often woken from her sleep by the blare of air-raid sirens. The sound warned that Nazi planes were flying over Bournemouth, the English seaside town where Goodall’s family had moved at the outbreak of the war. Her younger sister Judy would be up like a shot, bounding down the stairs to the bomb shelter. But Goodall refused to budge. “I did not want to leave my bed,” she says. “They had to take me down with all my bedclothes.” Eight decades later, Goodall, now 87, is standing in the living room of the same hou...
Source: TIME: Science - September 30, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Ciara Nugent Tags: Uncategorized Cover Story Environment feature healthscienceclimate longform Magazine Source Type: news