A new paper suggests that plant- and fish-based diets lessen the chance of developing severe symptoms – but hold off from becoming vegetarian or pescatarian for now.
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Pandemic viruses arise from raising, harvesting and eating animals. Policy strategy for averting the next pandemic should include supporting those already seeking to make plant-based dietary changes.
Appearance, texture and flavour are the three main challenges food scientists face when developing a convincing plant-based meat.
Cutting out dairy, eggs and meat is thought to prevent and reverse heart disease. But as our latest study shows, the evidence doesn't back this claim up.
Forgot tempeh. The humble shroom has the potential to be used across industries, in ways we're only beginning to grasp.
A dietitian breaks down everything you need to know about this viral meat substitute.
It is possible to be an ethical vegan, who supports a better world for animals, and have the COVID-19 vaccine.
Recruiting more vegans for studies in the future will help us understand how this diet affects health.
Anti-nutrients naturally occur in food and can block the amount of other nutrients available for your body to use. But their effects aren't all bad, which is why they're undergoing an image makeover.
Plant-based diets can be healthy but ingredients matter. Heavily processed meat substitutes can be high in saturated fats and sodium.
Who gets to decide what we call the things we eat? Increasingly, wealthy plant-based food moguls.
There are so many milk alternatives these days, but it can be difficult to tell how beneficial they might be for our health. So we asked a dietitian to run through the main options.
Going from a single spore to a finished fungi-derived leather product takes a couple of weeks. But raising a cow to maturity for bovine leather can take several years.
The end of factory farming will lay the foundation for a rural resurgence and the development of more just and sustainable communities for people and animals alike.
Trump’s recent executive order to keep meat plants open is premised on a lie: that a meat shortage is a food shortage.
Research shows a wider impact than you might think, including on mental health and pain.
Vegan activists are doing more than promoting healthy diets, they are increasingly vocal about the ethical treatment of animals and pushing for social change.
Eating plant-based proteins is linked with lower risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes.
Plant-rich diets can help tackle the climate crisis, prevent disease and improve mental health.
And why they may be about to change their diets in the years ahead.
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Director, Agri-Food Analytics Lab, Professor in Food Distribution and Policy, Dalhousie University
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Principal Lecturer in Sociology, Nottingham Trent University
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Lecturer in Criminology, The Open University
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Research Associate, University of Manchester
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Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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PhD student in Sustainability, University of Technology Sydney
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Visiting Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire
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Associate Professor, Food Economics, University of Guelph
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Associate Professor Sustainable Food Systems, Director of Rural Research Centre, Dalhousie University
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Professor, Dept of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Guelph
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Professor of History and Philosophy, and Deputy Dean Research (Faculty of Arts), University of Adelaide
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Lecturer in Science Communication, The University of Western Australia
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Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University
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Former Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics, King's College London
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Chair of the Department of Labour Studies; Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, Brock University
