In the podcast this week, we discuss how the city of Berkeley, California is planning on reducing the amount of meat it purchases for city supplied meals with the goal of going completely plant based in the future. The reasons used to justify this move revolve around reducing the city’s greenhouse gas emissions and the city’s attempt to promote healthier meals.
Both of these reasons are complete shit! Animal agriculture is not a major contributor to total worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. In total, plant based agriculture contributes more carbon to the atmosphere than animal agriculture. Plant based meals are also lacking in too many essential vitamins and mineral compared to their animal based meals to be consider healthy, in my opinion. Some of the nutritional deficiencies in plant based meals include: Vitamin A, D, K, Choline, Creatine, Cholesterol, Carnitine and Zinc, just to name a few. You must include animal based sources of nutrition in your meals in order to get the optimum amount of these nutrients in your diet.
To learn more about why Berkeley is going vegan and why we think it’s the wrong decision, listen to this week’s podcast.
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