The Great Plant-Based Con: Why eating a plants-only diet won't improve your health or save the planet

This book offers an alternative to the plant-based-is-best narrative that is being touted at the moment.If you’re interested in learning the truth about food, health, agricultural emissions and regenerative food production then definitely get it!

Extremely well researched and presented. Should be read by anyone who eats.

Great

I don’t think the author has done her case a service with this highly inconsistent manifesto. The author (who is not a scientist), after (I would say rightly) dismissing epidemiological evidence against eating animal fat, then goes on to quote lots of anecdotal evidence & self-monitored experiments to build a case for meat. One could easily write a book in the same style with the exact opposite message, cherry-picking different sources.The end notes are not at the end of the book but on a website - a highly unusual & somewhat alarming approach which I can’t help thinking is used to discourage readers from checking them.

This book goes into a lot of detail. For the most part, it investigates the economic interests that stand behind the push toward plant-based diets. It shows how vegans are not the main drivers of that push; the main drivers are corporations who will make a profit from selling processed plant-based foods. The book also dives into the widespread opinion that cattle ranching is a major contributor to greenhouse gases, and provides a wealth of talking points on this topic. If you want to understand the debate against meat and in favor of substitutes, such as impossible burgers and lab-grown meat, you should definitely read this book.

Well written. An excellent read. A timely warning about the dangers of plant based diets for some of us. Eating plants and artificial meats isn’t always a healthy diet nor does it lead to a healthier planet.