They’re Doing WHAT To Vegan Food?!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ม.ค. 2022
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Did you know this?! The food industry is determined to sell us the idea that vegan food is healthy and natural, when actually some 'plant based' products are ultra processed and unhealthy and potentially addictive.
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"I don't need a sausage that's got an agenda." You bloody legend 🍺
Pork is good for you I heard omega's everyone though is different I just don't like the idea of killing an animal in it's prime and don't believe we need That much meat all the time?
Fabulous line!! 😆😆😆😆😆
God you people are dummies. Lmao you worship this guy like he’s a genius. He’s just speaking basic common sense. And he’s so far behind which mean y’all are so far behind too. Never stops. “Legend” hahahaha meanwhile Russel has an agenda himself
@@Stringz Common sense, it not common anymore hence why he is popular.
@@Stringz Everyone has. But why so salty? I think he is a very positive bloke, and don't we all need a bit of positivity? I say yes! And a bit of humor too! Cheers
I grew up on a mostly vegetarian diet…chicken once per month for example. We planted our food and hardly bought anything, even our cooking oil came from the coconuts in our backyard. Now I have decided that I am going the vegetarian way. There are raised eyebrows because I am constantly told ….’you need protein’. For God’s sake I am 79 and I can donate my protein. Do not get me started on ‘it tastes like meat, you would never know’. Dammit, if I wanted meat I would eat meat. My body is telling me no to animal based food……..spiritually I feel that I need clean food. For me ‘clean’ simply means going back to where I was 60-70 years ago.
Same here as in vego for nearly 60yrs and vegan for the last few. Never needed or wanted meat-like crap. And a lot of the vegan crap recipes loaded with fat and sugar.
Human teeth developed eating meat.
Human stomachs aren't built for digesting heavy amounts of greens, etc
I always tell people if you want to know the truth speak to someone over 70. The elderly knows where it is act. My grandma and great aunt have told me stories when in 1930s and even into Cuban Revolution meat was always too expensive, it got ridiculous after the Cuban Communist Revolution and people survived basically on rice and beans everyday. Everyone was still healthy and strong and some even showed better recovery after working in the farm and fields. People rarely got sick. Those who had heart problems and diabetes were born that way. When those same Cubans came into the US and started to eat meats and other things that weren't available on the island they all got sick... diabetes and heart problems was no longer something you were born with , but gained due to the diet. My great aunt especially told me to stick to my vegetarian diet because that is the true diet of my heritage. She never criticized my diet, because she still ate that way too. She is in her 90s. I loved listening to her stories of what she went through as a kid, teen and young adulthood. She had a wild life, rock n roll. 🥰👍😎👍
Hi, great video , I've been vegetarian for 30 years now vegan 3 years I've never liked processed vegan foods and make it all from scratch. No one can trust the food industry it's so corrupt!!!!🙏💙💙🎆🙏
I'm the same make my own meals at home im still learning recipes
Food safity is very low.
This is a conversation that more vegans need to have. Those “fake meats” I feel were meant for people transitioning to a plant based diet. Not a staple in our lives.
You don't get to define the diets of others. They are not hurting living beings to the best of their ability.. stay in your lane.
@@ghouling1111 they were just offering a bit of advice, no need to be so harsh
Those mock or meat substitutes are consume as a stable in Asia especially China/Taiwan.
@@ghouling1111 She is not defining your diet. She is not coming to your house or calling you. Based on her comment, she is vegan.
i agree i get by eating more potaotes and vegitables than i do by eating soy or that fake meat
Ever since turning vegan I’ve had a healthy attitude towards these products. only eating them as a treat. I find rotating kidney and black beans and the occasional tempeh a much more healthy option.
Me too. And you can make your own homemade mock meats out of beans and rice and mushrooms etc that are amazing.
I think one of the biggest elements of eating healthy is paying attention to how the food that you eat feels in your body. Through paying attention I have learned over time that it doesn't matter how "clean" the ingredients are, if it's heavily processed I just don't feel good. Also, when it comes to food as I see it's also worth paying attention to it's inherent lifeforce. Some might refer to this as "high vibration." It makes sense to me that food that is fresh, natural healthy and unprocessed is the way to go. And as I see it, all of these highly processed vegan foods are really just junk food.
Awesome 👌 now imagine if you did some actual work? And being a mommy doesn't count sorry. Thats just nature. No extra credits 4 that
@@keastymatthew2407 Of course being a mum counts . It's all the pointless jobs to make crap for consumers that don't matter .
During the pandemic , we learned that most of our jobs are worthless to society .
Being a good mother is a harder and more valuable job than most.
So , what do you do for a living then ?
@@keastymatthew2407 Found the person with issues.
You’re far too convinced of how “heavily” processed foods effect you to have a clear perspective on it.
Agree 100%. Whole food plant based is best for our bodies.
I had TERMINAL cancer and told to get my affairs in order. I beat terminal cancer with herbs and pure foods. No synthetic foods and no preservatives. That was over 9 years ago. Pure organic food is extremely important to our health.
So glad too find u on TH-cam as I’m not on Instagram I miss your daily updates on what’s good or bad !! U
been a vegan since the 90's and enjoyed seeing the range of alternatives grow, which i think is a good thing. However, nothing beats buying or growing a box of organic fruit & veg. We should all be trying to grow some of our own food, it's really not that difficult 💚
What if you live in a top floor flat with no garden or window sills to put out plant pots?
It is if you live in an apartment.
@@steveodonoghue2772 move. i did several times.
@@lolazal1 then make a plan & move into one
@@lolarules.62 move? Don’t ever wonder why people don’t grow their own veg while your dishing out ridiculous advice like that.
Being vegan for over twenty years I have lived the junk food vegan lifestyle, been a bit of a purist but neither of those options were sustainable for me. Now I strive to do the best and make the healthiest choices for myself and my vegan family as I can which usually looks like predominantly raw or whole foods with the occasional indulgence and we are thriving in this balance.
I’ll be a Vegan for 5 years In August. I cook mostly Whole Foods In our house but I also buy products such as impossible nuggets, burger, beyond beef and bakon. We enjoy this things sometimes. I think if we eat mostly whole plant based it’s okay to include this products in our diet. I have a physical exam every year and I am very healthy, also my family. I also think that we should support the plant based businesses so we can have more options to bring people into the Vegan movement. 🙏🥰🌱🌱🌱
Can you help me with my journey into becoming vegan? I'm 6 ft 2 over 240 lb and I want to know what I could eat to not only satiate my appetite, but to lose weight. I also work at a grocery store so I'm on my feet pretty much from 4-6 hours
I need help. I'm 6 ft 2 over 240 lb and I'm trying to cut out meat and become vegan. I want to know what I could eat to not only satiate my appetite, but to lose weight. I also work at a grocery store so I'm on my feet pretty much from 4-6 hours
@@EdDaBawsh you need to do more research. For example meat/plants have a variety of amino acids most of which our own body can manufacture. However meat eggs fish chicken cheese contain all 9 essential amino acids (essential because the body can't make them you need to obtain them from food)
Vegetables have some of the 9 amino acids but not always complete or of a high quantity
However good vegetables sources do exist.
Your vegetable sources of "complete proteins" meaning all 9 amino acids are Lentils,beans (black beans, soy, kidney beans etc,) chickpeas mushrooms
Walnuts, pumkin seeds, flax seeds, chia seeds, peanuts, cashews ,
You can use the nuts in a Protein smoothie
You can also get vegan protein powder
Like hemp seed powder or chickpea protein, to add to your fruit smoothie
Some religions like a branch of Hindu (Jainism) that are forbidden from eating meat have tried and true ways of preparing nutritious food without meat.
We can look to the internet for traditional trusted recipes that have kept people alive for centuries.
While transitioning to less meat products you can still eat cheese and eggs as changing your diet too fast can do more harm than good.
See a nutritionist if you get too confused.
If you have a good food processor you can make vegan Burger patties there a a lot of recipes on TH-cam
One basic recipe includes:
Mushroom
Blackbeans
Walnuts
Onion
Herbs spices
Olive oil
Breadcrumb
Good luck
@@doradora5547 good advice ❤️👍
Your eating poisoned fake meat?
Thank you for having bring awareness to the food industry and it’s woes. Too many people turn a blind eye
I always had a bad feeling about eating processed vegan/ vegetarian foods and fake meat, I just eat veggies now, Mediterranean veg wraps, veg curry, veg Thai curry etc occasionally those beyond burgers😋 or vegan kebab meat ....some of those vegan sausages pour out so much fat! A bit of processed is ok but I say to myself stick to a balance of gods own created foods if you want to be healthy 😀
@@conorbrodie yes I do apologize. I didn’t mean to put my comment on as a rely to someone’s comment which I hadn’t even read. It’s not my place to comment on anyones opinion. I was commenting on the article Russel read on the main video. I will try to remove it as it’s misleading and makes me sound like a wanker
regular meat hot links and sausages are fatty too. gotta watch out and make sure you are only consuming quality foods.
@@theextraordinarytropicalli8776 oh 😂😂
This is lovely to listen to from someone who themselves is vegan.
It’s even better if you eat a steak whilst listening!
Indeed, ultra processed is not the way forward for food, its a rip off from veganism. Most steaks are also pumped with antibiotics and all sorts these days
It IS interesting. I myself avoid meat, and therefore avoid things that try too hard to look and feel and taste like meat. Beyond Beef (is that what it's called? Or Beyond Burgers?) i tried once... totally disgusting. I'll just go for a straightforward sauteed tofu or tempeh, happily.
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@@lukeoneill513 😴
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We’ve been on it since seven months now. Love ya mate. Always appreciate your input.
JV 🌱😉
Thank you for sharing this. We also appreciate your vulnerability in saying that "i am a customer". I feel like a lot of us know these things, but it takes someone to tell it straight to hit home. Thanks again for sharing.
I stopped buying Quorn and all of those faux meat products because I started getting this icky feeling about them inside that they're not as nutritious as we're being led to believe. Food that looks bright, colourful, and energising is always going to come out on top.
Its so bad. I ate a few stupid fake meat products recently and spent 3 days with horrible reactions. I am greedy and stupid, I know better than this 😂🤦♀️
KNEW THIS 2 YRS AGO MAKE MY OWN NOW DON'T YOU? MEAT FATS THOUGH ARE GOOD FOR YOU DEPENDING ON YOU HOWEVER I WOULD ONLY DO THAT IF THE ANIMAL WERE ABOUT TO DIE ANYWAY DON'T LIKE MEAT THAT MUCH ANYWAY
From my research Quorn is one of only healthy ones out there as it is basically a fermented micronutrient and fermented foods have been proven to be very healthy. I could be wrong on Quorn but that is what I have read about it and I know that fermented has healthy benefits and is not the same as ultra processed. Was the only one recommended by Dr. Gundry Lectin free diet as well.
I have been thinking about this I thought well I can still have a juicy burger (vegan). But now it’s like you can’t even have that. #1stworldproblems. Ok so I don’t want to start any hate but if it’s a choice between and shed load of chemicals or some natural meat I think I would stay with the meat. That being said happy for any one to post a link to a juicy vegan burger not full of chemicals. Light and love have a nice day
A lot of the vegan processed I eat actually has very few chemicals it's all natural flavoring from actual named plants
I have been vegan for thirteen months. After being in massive chronic pain for 17 years I began meditating every day and the pain lessened over 12 months. After one year of that I also became vegan. The pain left me 4 weeks later. To this day I still meditate every day and remain a vegan. I am 67 and I have not felt so well for 2 decades. Pirkko from Queensland Australia
i’m vegan and also from qld!!
Me too :)
"Pinkko..." 🤣😜
I havent heard that word in such a long time! Lol 👏✌🙏
I'm clean eating due to pain and stuff. Very enjoyable.
I have written 2 vegan songs th-cam.com/video/NSGfQdZKd_Q/w-d-xo.html and other songs on my channel. This one is called Rebels 🌱🌍💕🐖🐄🐓🍓 It would be amazing if you could give it a listen and comment your thoughts in the comments on my TH-cam videos!
I changed my thought pattern and it really helped with my nutrition decisions. I went from wanting to be thin, healthy, vegan etc to thinking heart healthy. It’s a game changer because you think about how and what kind of foods that your heart will thrive on. Makes it way easier to not eat sodium laden processed foods
I love Jessica Seinfeld’s book “Vegan, At Times” and “The Homemade Vegan Pantry” by Miyoko Schinner. Borrowed both books from my public library and had to buy them. I never realized how incredibly easy and fun it is to make your own condiments. “Vegan, At Times” taught me how to include my favorite meals, but with a simple plant-based technique. My shopping cart excludes everything except plants, seeds, and nuts! Down with waste!
You have to remember the rates of heart disease and diabetes went way up in the 70s into the 80s with the introduction of vegetable oils and seed oils then corn surp products
Watch any video of regular civilians from pre 1980 and look for fat people. There were very few.
@@charliedillon1400 that's why I said it started. Way more sugar used at time went. And the more people who ate more natural diet.. I remember in the 70s many people grew their own food. Until store bought was cheaper and easier.
The science is absolutely clear the saturated animal fat is worse for heart disease than seed oils .
@@charliedillon1400 More active!
Yep margarine and high Fructose Corn syrup!
Once again Russel Brand is the voice of reason in the crazy world we live in.
Russell, you are AMAZING!! I love how you share your thoughts and this information with a discerning eye…there is a huge difference between healthy vegan food (so not processed) and all the mock meats that are quite processed. 👍🏽
Ugh so grateful you are making all of these videos!!!! THANK YOU!
Hey Russell, Having a degree in Food Science & Technology from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, I can tell you- highly processed food, irrespective if it is animal-based, or plant based, is going to result in nutritional deficiencies and digestion (and various other health-related) disorders. Just because it is "vegan", especially if it is processed, does not mean it is healthy and nutritious.
I don't think you were listening to what he said. Watch it again please.
It means animals don’t get tortured, raped, and murdered; which is the whole point.
@@genjibenkei There are no vegan combine harvesters. (baby field mice, birds etc get minced) It's simply untrue that no animals are harmed to produce plant based food. It a lie that you can believe if you are ignorant, but it's still a lie.
@@OliHandy2008 monocropping with tractors and poisons is not veganic it is the modern way of agriculture that will be fazed out.
@@EJS1972 Not so. We are powered by carbs. Read the China Study. Your information is incorrect.
The next generation will help pave the way.
My daughter is Vegan, GF and refined sugar free. She has crohn's, which improved because of her diet/lifestyle. She buys body/household products based on vegan/chemical free, no numbers etc. Reduced chemicals in her environment.
Self taught how to make cheeses, sausages, chicken, butter etc. Buys from bulk bin stores. Makes everything with her thermomix. She would say "Mum, that's junk food." I was offended initially. Because I thought vegan food meant 'it's gotta be good'
Thank you Russell for raising awareness around this subject. 💕
Hi Maree, that's so great to hear your daughter has managed to improve her symptoms through her diet and lifestyle. I'm training as a nutrition and lifestyle coach (my own son had health issues with gluten and dairy and is now vegan). Just out of interest, have you / your daughter shared her experience with other Crohn's groups and if so what reaction have you got? I hear about so many doctors and dieticians recommending beige, processed food?! thanks for sharing
I really can not stand it when people say "chemical free" an apple even an organic apple is nothing but chemicals. Say what you mean and mean what you say. Just like when people saying the idiotic phrase "it is natural it is good for you" cyanide is natural so too is arsenic and mercury is a mineral but I am not going go out an consume them. The biggest problem I see with all of this stuff is that most people that advocate for vegan life style and anti-what ever is in fashion do not truly understand the subject they are talking about and spew all kinds of bad information. Not intentionally but that does not make it any better. I am not anti-vegan or anti-vegetarian or anti any way of eating but I am tired of ignorance which seems to rein supreme in the "ANTI" establishment world. It goes with out saying that any food item you eat should be minimally processed no matter if it is an animal product or a vegetable product! If someone is going to debate the norm they need to be as well educated on the topic as the main stream expert and should be able to speak intelligently about it. Every time a vegan or vegetarian spews nonsense it makes the entire premise look bad. For some populations and health conditions plant based diet is the way to go! For some populations and health conditions a case can be made for rather limited animal and limited plant based diet and the like. Personal claims of health and vitality can be found in both camps. This is not an us vs them situation yet that is how it is often framed and how most people see it. Almost no one does any form of scientific observations like lab work and other health measurements to establish what is working for them. Many of the healthiest populations on this earth eat mostly plant based diet with sea food daily and red meat a few times a year. I am not aware of any cultures that have existed for centuries that have super long live on an exclusively plant based diet devoid or sea food, insects, mammals or mammalian products like egg's and cheese all of the longest living cultures have some non-plant based food in the mix even if the amounts are small! Avoiding animal based food for reasons of conscience is different than what is actual best for the species. What happens when you find out plants are sentient as well and have the ability to feel pain and anticipate pain?
@@jasminestevenswong5783 We haven't shared with groups. It is an individual journey. My daughter has Crohn's, Ulcerative colitis, Psoriatic arthritis, Endometriosis and Scoliosis. We understand what works for one person, may not for another. We don't judge others as we don't know their journey.
I shared, what we have experienced. That we/you can make a difference in the smallest ways. We research and use our intuition. We support/buy from people who have similar values to us. Who make their own products.
I wish you all the happiness and success in your studies.
@@buckaroobonsi555 I hate it when meat-eaters go around acting like their diets don't consist of murdering sentient innocent beings and get offensive when people point out the fact that their diet includes killing another animal. Eating meat = Murderous diet!!! Say what you mean and mean what you say, after all!!!! 🙄
You complain and whine a lot for someone who goes around being against the "Us vs Them" and yet here you are acting just like that. The original poster was sharing his own personal experience and you are attacking this person who stated nothing of what you are saying... You know DAMN F*CKING WELL WHAT PEOPLE MEAN BY CHEMICALS!!!! Are you truly that daft and socially inept to know basic linguistics and social cues??? 🤷😒
We know that animals feel pain and are sentient... that we know for sure... what is the problem with avoiding pain from such sentient beings that we already know actually feel such pain? Or do you love going around causing problems like the typical murderous dieter out there? There is enough data to show that in the highly advanced society we live in now where we can grow anything anywhere have no excuse for killing another sentient being. Again, you are going about causing and looking for problems to suit your own personal agenda. Get out of here if vegans offend you so much because clearly their existence offends you so much!!! 🤦
BTW there are plant-based cultures... Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism have members who are strict vegans and vegetarians. Veganism isn't white culture... it started in Asian cultures and spread out in the 20th century when bohemian movements like Dadaism, Beats, and Hippies explored those Asian cultures and brought with them those ancient practices and beliefs.
@@LadyCoyKoi Well said! 🌱
I've been talking about this for years now👏👏👏. Happy you made this video. People need to open their eyes to what goes on in the food industry/how are food is being made.
Vegan 11yrs (processed at times and healthy as often as I can) and I am here for this convo, thanks Russell!
Omg, I just jumped seeing your name, it is only two letters away from mine (Siobhan Rush) 😁
We’ve always known plant based meats are processed foods for years…all you need to do is look at the ingredient list - high in salt, sugar and emulsifiers.
Plant-based whole foods are the healthiest options. I don’t understand why this is news in 2022, but here we are.
We need more education in nutrition so we can make informed choices when approached by dubious food product marketing.
Oh this hits home. I started my vegan path with all the processed meat substitutes out there. My freezer was jam packed. It got me over the hurdle of craving those juicy burgers, buffalo chicken strips, and sausage and pepper hoagies. But, although I felt ethically better, I found myself physically feeling worse even swelling up. If I even think of them, i want to hurl. Now I have two mottos: "if it didn't grow, it's a no" and "If it didn't come from the dirt, it's gonna hurt." Love your content!
You probably got less healthy because the minerals for example from the meat even if was processed weren't being replaced by anything.
i love your motto and being vegan not against others eating meat just wish more would be hunter gathers vs kids in a candy store
@@licensedtoill9278 i agree i think sustainable food is very important. and yes i am a kid in a candy stored blessed to have a store to go too. however looking at history, civilizations have been rising and falling forever. ours is no different. there has to be a perfect balance and room for nature. eventually that gap gets a little to wide then civilizations start falling apart.
@@licensedtoill9278 your right if population wasnt so overbundant we could live a harvest lifestyle. for the population increase thats completely normal, there is population control that does not work, in end result a population decrease which we have seen in history a collapse of civilization.
100% SAME for me, 5 years ago. EXACTLY the same story. Interesting...Now I just consider myself WFPB.
Love the way you get your point across but manage to make it hysterical at the same time.
I have gone mostly raw vegan recently and have found it very inspiring. I am finally seeing progress in overcoming some of my Salt, Sugar, & Oil/Fat addictions. I'm finally losing the extra weight I have struggled with for decades. Thank you for this video. ❤️
Your body Needs salt to live try not to cut it out completely.
I stopped adding salt to food over 30 years ago because I learned that too much causes water retention. I figured the food I was eating had enough in it already. I am eating much healthier now, and my bloodwork shows low sodium. I will have to look into this.
Yeah now we're talking 🙏😄
Dr. Robert Morse
Just watch out you don't loose to much. My mother did raw food when I was a child and she had to quit, even if she felt really good, because she lost to much weight.
It went quickly, but I still believe it is good for you (she had always been pretty small from the beginning).
@@somethingbambi875 no that's fear. You just have to know what you're doing. It's just a logical effect of what one is doing. I lost a lot as well, but gained after again when I was cleaned enough. I was on 100% fruit, and then eventually began to put muscle on, on just fruit.
The key is to know what you're doing, know the process of what's happening. The Truth (Light) will set us Free.
It's good to see you talking about veganism . We're desperate for some rational voices in our movement. It would be great to hear more from you on the subject.
It is your choice. But grow up
Hard agree, more vegan videos! Also keasty lowkey toxic, but you already knew that
@@keastymatthew2407 part of growing up is realising that habits we were taught are no longer worth continuing.
@@justroberto5052 That is actually very very accurate 👍. May peace be upon you good sir.
I have written 2 vegan songs th-cam.com/video/NSGfQdZKd_Q/w-d-xo.html and other songs on my channel. This one is called Rebels 🌱🌍💕🐖🐄🐓🍓 It would be amazing if you could give it a listen and comment your thoughts in the comments on my TH-cam videos!
I've been vegan 8 years. I eat about 90% whole plant foods and 10% processed. Maybe even 95% whole food 5% processed.
I am still inclined to believe that overall vegan processed food is still better for you than animal processed food.
Compare a normal processed sausage to a vegan sausage. There's chemicals, "meat glue" not to mention the poor diet the animals were fed and the antibiotics they were given and the stress hormones within their decaying bodies. Plus the preservatives.
Plus the amount of resources it takes to raise the animals. And the suffering the animals endure.
It even be less harmful overall to the human body to eat vegan processed meat than a piece of organic grass fed piece of cow but it's hard to say.
We'd have to test it.
I think overall vegan processed meats are better than animal processed meat for sure.
Its great to have options whilst you transition to a vegan life style and when out with friends but ultimately whole foods are best.
I prefer how I feel when eating whole foods.
Whether you eat animals or not its best to not eat too much processed foods.
4:09 "I don't want a sausage that's got an agenda!"
Hahaha XD
Beautiful.
Nice to have french translation. Although I understand english, sometime Russell speak to fast so I missed a bit. Great!
2 day vegan here! My soul has been leading me down this path & im finally doing it. I have tried the fake meat before but I'm not going that route. I've been cooking whole foods. Less stomach cramping & it's only day two. So hopeful!
This is going to end badly for you. You'd be consuming a species appropriate diet for health... There's a reason more ex vegans are speaking out. As for the stomach cramping, consuming more fiber has already been shown to cause more digestive distress especially in those with GI issues not to mention the GI scale is... Well its the most useless measurement of carbs there possibly is as no one should be sourcing energy from carbs, animal sourced energy such as saturated fats should be your main source for energy. The issue is that the AHA has been bought and paid for giving the worst research for decades. These morons really believe that Saturated fat and red meat cause heart disease due to bad cholesterol lol read any peer review study, not observational and food survey studies but a actual peer review report... Then ask your doctor about cholesterol lol I can't wait for him or her to explain to you that LDL Is bad cholesterol which literally doesn't exist because LDL isn't cholesterol its a lipoprotein that carries Cholesterol that you're body makes its self. Any excess cholesterol that you're body can handle is rid through fecal matter and we have peer reviewed reports that havung less cholesterol is associated with all cause mortality then having high cholesterol. Don't do it or get a new nutritionist or dietician who knows what they're talking about. You're about to consume a all plant based diet which people are finally realizing is more damaging then helpful, our ancestors have already been documented as meat eaters which kept us alive for centuries... You think they'd pick plants over meat lol. Not to mention... Um... I hope you know about antinutrients and plant toxins such as Lectins, Amines, Tannins, Trypsin inhibitors,Fodmaps,
Salicylates, Oxalates, Sulfites, benzo ates, MSG, Non protein amino acids, Glycosides
,Akaloids including solanine and chaconine, Triterpenes,Lignins, Saponins, Phytic acid, Glutan and Isoflaones that you're body can't rid its self of completely, hair loss, digestive worsen or distress because fiber can't be digested, low levels of cholesterol which is super dangerous, malnutrition, loss of sex drive, poor skin and skin conditions, weakness and nervous system injury all reported and conclusively peer reviewed on a vegan diet... It's why whenever you hear the phrase "Veganism is more healthier".. Ask you're self compared to what? Then go read those reports lol it's always and I mean always compared to the SAD diet (Standard American diet). As for the ethics of a vegan diet,the pollution of sprays and over spill of those plant toxins kill or poisons more cattle then factory pharm yearly which vegans don't talk about because why would they?
Please don't take my word for any of this that would be silly, please do some more research there's a big reason why Veganism is pushed on the population it's governmental pushed, bought and paid for... Think about all the "Vegan" products that have come out and link them back to the companies that produce them lol all governmental owned not to mention the shady history of those companies I mean come on now. Don't do it or at keast go Keto for health. You must have a measurement of animal product within your diet to function properly. There's a reason vegan studies beyond 10 years doesn't exist and there's a reason you're health declines after 3-5. Need more? Look at Mic the Vegan this man looks so sick it's not even fair. And yes there are some vegans who can I guess get away with a vegan lifestyle but not for long, peer reviews in nutrition that 87% of vegans have to include animal based products at some point to counter act poor health decline... Wonder why that is. Again please do better research other then Google research. A recent carnivore diet report came out finally after the American heart association demonized meat for decades showing large health improvement over the course a few months. The reason you're doing so well already is a phenomenon where when you step away from a previous diet which either you had food sensitivity too or you reacted poorly too, the body chances pretty quickly... Think of it as the honey moon stage of a relationship. That will fade and health decline with arise.
@@GCT1990 never seen such a huge amount of bollocks.
@@GCT1990 LOL a lot of words to say nothing. Crazy 🌱🌱🌱
You’re doing exactly as you should; listening to your body and eating Whole Foods. Mix in raw veggies and you should be set
You can be very healthy as a vegan! I hold an MSc in Exercise and Nutrition Science. It is a marvelous choice to make, totally the ethical thing to do. Keep up the good work, find the resources you need to stay healthy, and if you fall off the wagon just revisit your values and climb back on without shame. You can do this- ignore the haters!
I've been vegan for 20 years now, and think these products are amazing to help people transition, and fun to have on occasion, but definitely should not be part of someone's regular diet. That being said there are loads of vegetable and bean based burgers that have been around a long time that are a lot healthier than the more processed ones and also really tasty!
That word “addictive “, scary and true. Vegetarian for decades now vegan for five. I had a beyond burger last year then tried the impossible meat and ate that. I would crave that stuff more and more and my body would not quiet down until I had it. That sounds like an addiction to me. It is exactly what you said. I became vegan to be more healthy. I realized eating that stuff was not helping me towards that effort. It was in fact harming me. Thank you for this.
your mic clip is awesome...what kind is it. the quality sounds really good.
Vegan for the animals. Eating faux meat is up to the individual but if you want to stay healthy, eat wholefood plant based. Have faux food very occasionally otherwise you’ll end up nutrient deficient. It’s tasty but it’s crap food . I’ve been vegan for 15 years, veggie before that and have perfect bloods results. I do love vegan chocolate though….. 😉
Spot on 💜 I worked at a vegan business making vegan chocolate 🍫 best job I ever had hahaha! Some were a little ‘medicinal’ 😉🌿
I'm on the carnivore diet myself. I love meat and raised my own animals in a free range environment. I also respect your decision to eat non animal products, no judgement here.
@@immelting9834 that’s admirable that you raise your animals yourself. I myself am vegan but I have no problem with people who ethically raise their animals or at least buy from ethical places before eating them. If everyone did that, then I think the world would be a lot better place to live in.
I’m a whole Food Plant Based Vegan and my husband is a junk food vegan. The healthiest alternative WFPB meat I found is from Jack and Annie’s. It’s made out of Jackfruit with not to many readable ingredients and does taste really good. I gave it to my non vegan friends and they loved it.
Since you like meat. Why not eat it lol
@@vihreelinja4743 think hard enough and you'll come up with the answer yourself ;)
@@vihreelinja4743 Perhaps watch some of those documentaries Russell was referencing and you can get the answer yourself.
@@vihreelinja4743 Michelle didn’t say she liked meat. She stated her preference for a particular brand of alternative meat and the fact that she liked it because it’s made with natural jackfruit and a limited amount of additional ingredients.
The good news is it doesn’t matter whether she eats meat or not when it comes to the decisions YOU make for YOURSELF.
Isn’t it great that we can exercise our own free will to make our own informed decisions?
The bad news is, it’s easy to get confused and mistakenly use that free will to focus so much on other people’s choices (which we can’t control), and forget to live our own lives.
It’s amazing how many people are offended by veganism or some other personal choice someone makes for their own lives as if self-determination offends them. Or as individuality scares them and they need other people to make the same decisions they’ve made in order to feel validated.
Trying to not get into conversations about why I make the choices I make doesn’t always help. Even when I try to insist on my right to keep my personal choices and reasoning to myself.
Having the conversation unwillingly and trying to reason with them may only makes things more confusing as they claim to be in support of being able to make THEIR own decisions without having to explain themselves the way they expect others to.
The hypocrisy’s lost on them most of the times. And even if I can get them to agree to “Live and Let Live”, I find that they soon forget and resort back to being the same busybody/ hater.
It’s like a game of wack-a-mole.
Rudyard Kipling was right. “Trying to use logic with someone who has abandoned reason, is like administering medicine to the dead”.
Not saying anything at all while I time how long they can “argue” by themselves doesn’t always work either. However playing “the observer/ amateur social scientist does make things more amusing (from my perspective) and feels more dignified then getting into a crazy conversation.
@@Magani79 "think hard"...Well, there's your first mistake...
Russell, thank you for using all your intelligence and skill to bring clarity to so many so relevant subjects. You are great.
Thank you. Very smart information, conscious thinking 👍👍
Weird..I was JUST thinking about this and saw you released an episode about it. Leave it to major corporations to say "hey, suddenly everybody is into plant based foods, let give them what they THINK they want and let's have fun with this. They won't read the nutrition label and even if they did they probably wouldn't even know what half the ingredients are let alone their negative implications 🤣🤣" that's why they say a raw food diet is your best option if you want to assure that your food doesn't have harmful ingredients. And learn how to grow organically ourselves.
Me too, I saw a McDonald's McPlant burger advert on the way home 😃
I looked at one of my friend's vegan meal bars the other day, it had 64 ingredients 😬
@@reg4211 I always look at the ingredients and assume if I don't have those ingredients in the cupboard or I can't buy them in the shop, something might be off there.
@@reg4211 that's scary
@@sarahn.9358 exactly!!!!!
I’ve been vegan for 31 years. I love that there are so many choices now even if they may not be the healthiest thing to eat. My favorite is Gardein. I think eating a little processed food is ok as long as I eat mostly healthy food.
I’ve been vegan for 100 years
31 years? Wow...what a legend. I'm going on 7 years
@@billyray3565 you're lucky if you reach 40. 🤡👺🤡
I’m a naturopathic practitioner and a vegetarian for 51 years, a vegan-50 years, a raw grain-free raw vegan 22 years. I am certified as a hygienic nutritional consultant, neuro-optical analysist (iridologist), acupressure massage therapist, reflexologist, cranial sacral therapist, yoshiya medical massage therapist. I’m a retired college-level teacher of ‘health, safety and nutrition’ and have provide numerous presentations in Canada where I lived for 24 years as well as in New Mexico where I now reside.
And?
I’m thinking that the phrase “Plant Based” is being overused and can we continue to trust that Plant Based = Vegan. Apparently not - I have today received an email from Nando’s answering the question, Are your “Plant Based products all vegan?” Their answer is No! Their Great Imitator and Spiced Chickpea Burger are according to them, Plant Based but NOT Vegan! 🤷♀️
That’s why you always read the Ingredients.
must be eggs, or fat not being plant base, labels are not always reliable...another confusion.
I've been vegan 11 years, since I'm poor and of a Cuban family I eat mostly whole food plant based like rice and beans, and lots of other Cuban foods like yuca, plantains, salad, papaya, but I also have processed and vegan junk food once in a while as a treat or if there is nothing else to eat. But I love being vegan and vegan foods. The food at restaurants are amazing but I don't go often, mostly do home cooked meals from grocery store. I hate that vegans get so much shit, us and our diet gets mocked. Yes we do it for the environment and our health but we mostly do it for the animals. They are sentient, feeling, living, innocents beings that are suffering extremely in animal agriculture, slaughter houses and factory farms. I liked that this video wasn't taking the opportunity to bash vegans and vegan diet because its so easy to do it because of mainstream media and the majority who are meat eaters. If you want to learn more about the philosophy of veganism and the diet I recommend you watch documentaries like: The Game Changers, What the Health, Forks over Knives, Cowspiracy, Seaspiracy, Diet for a new America, Dominion, Lucent, Earthlings (last three more graphic)
I have written 2 vegan songs th-cam.com/video/NSGfQdZKd_Q/w-d-xo.html and other songs on my channel. This one is called Rebels 🌱🌍💕🐖🐄🐓🍓 It would be amazing if you could give it a listen and comment your thoughts in the comments on my TH-cam videos!
Well said!
If everyone became vegan the animals that you stop eating will eat all of the fruits and veggies that you are now eating. Make sense right? In truth eventually you will be malnutritioned because many vegetables contain anti nutrients which is why many vegans are getting cancer and auto immune diseases. Animals are our friends and plants are our enemies which is why you should eat the animals and minimize the consumption of plants (especially raw plants). Our ancestors did not die of the diseases we are suffering today because they ate a balance of meat and vegetables and low carb fruits like berries. They knew how to prepare foods so they would not hurt our bodies but we lost the ways of our ancestors which is why today many people suffer from diseases and will die early.
Wait, but I thought that veganism was a privilege... there's no way a poor person could stop paying for the most expensive products at the store (meat and dairy). /s
@@skycarter5761 Well we do breed billions and kill billions of animals every year. Maybe to solve this issue. We should stop forcibly impregnating them. Right?? Then the population goes down and we can devote more land to reforestation.
I went vegan just over 4 years ago after working in the meat Industry for some 25 years, first visit to a slaughterhouse was at the tender age of 16 as a young trainee butcher, it was a baptism of fire! I still vividly remember the experience, I also sadly spent a short period of time working in a slaughter house on a government run scheme where by cattle were being killed for potentially being infected with BSE, yet another Zoonotic disease caused by humans feeding cattle the dead ground up infected parts of other of animals when they should of been eating vegetation. My son went vegan and I wanted to prove him wrong, I didn't like vegetarians let alone vegans. After many heated debates and me continuing to want to prove him wrong I decided to watch a couple of the documentaries he mentioned, watching finally 'Earthlings, Land of Hope & Glory', filmed in factory farms in the UK, some of which I could relate too. Just 13 minutes in I had to stop it as it had me in tears. I decide enough was enough I would try to go vegan, so myself and my wife literally took the plunge and went vegan on her birthday just over 4 years ago. I am also an ultra endurance runner and have completed a 145 mile race powered by plants. I do eat some of the so called processed 'fake meats' but then I was a massive Carni having worked in the industry for so long. I use to eat literally meat for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I thought that my plate was not complete without dead animal parts on it. I went vegan for the animals, I never connected the dots before, If I am honest I just didn't give a F@ck even though I had heard their cries, seen the fear in their eyes and smelt the stench of death. I came to appreciate that all animals are sentient and not only do not want to die but very much do not need to, when we cannot only survive on plants but thrive on plants! I feel better mentally, physically & spiritually and am proud to be Vegan! Some people forget that the meat, fish, dairy and egg Industry are not always completely honest in their practices, BSE, horsegate scandal and so on, also in some sectors of the Industry it is known for over use of growth hormones and antibiotics, which can cause other problems that may effect humans. Now that I am vegan for the animals #myfoodisgrownnotborn I consume #foodfrommudnotfromblood
Great story, well done for changing your mind, it's inspiring!
All plants are sentient, too. We are just too stupid to realize it.
I'm always gonna eat meat.
@ Ian Shelly, Nice one.
@@wesbaumguardner8829 Plants are certainly alive but are not sentient. There is nothing that a plant desires, wants, or prefers because there is no mind there to engage in cognitive activities. It just reacts to certain stimuli, yet it does not mean it’s aware about it.
Even if plants do undergo stresses that might be described as "pain", they have no central nervous system to experience it.
This is a great video thank you very insightful
Love listening to you while I’m preparing dinner 🫶🏽
My doctor says I should take on a "plant based" diet for my heart/cholesterol. Quinua salads and fruit bowls here I come!
You can eat like so many countries lower fat dishes However is considerable proof that you can eat meat however this needs to be via YOUR body and what You inherit too My Brother and I have inherited collecting cholesterol
and I've heard that because of periods of no food sources in the past Our family is efficient at making that cholesterol work for us I have stir fry and a very little meat not often though maybe once a month if that and have to be kind of careful myself Cholesterol isn't the villian though that I heard depending it's your stress level mainly?
Big culprit is high carb and sugar (for cholesterol) - these lead to inflammation which is what makes the cholesterol dangerous (sticking to inflamed tissue inside arteries). So steer clear of high carbs and sugar. They also increase cholesterol production by increasing triglycerides. Low carb, low fat...thats what I have to do. I happen to love beans and Mexican bowls and quinoa and I love almost ALL veggies- so I find that part easy (Ive never liked meat). I slip up on carbs. I love crackers, and chips, and all those crunchy yum carbs - but I really need to stick to veggies and protein. Takes some serious intention but always brings my cholesterol levels down.
Need a new doctor 🤣
@@PeachesCourage very interesting!! Stress levels would explain a lot. I wonder if our ancestors evolved to hang on to cholesterol during times of stress as a conservation strategy. Not very useful during a 21st century pandemic though, eh? 🤣
@@deegir3354 no more high carbs and sugar? Where can I get some delectable low sodium cardboard? 😆
Hello Russell! Long time vegan over here. Just want to throw it out there that not all "processed foods" are bad! Rolled oats, frozen fruits, plant-based milks, frozen veggies, nutritional yeast, tinned beans, bean-based pasta, dried fruits, crackers...the list goes on and on. There are LOTS of great foods out there that fall into the "processed" category. I think we do well to recognize that. And personally, I think there's even room for veggies sausages and potato chips in a healthy plant-based diet :) Peace! Love your channel :)
agreed. and they're good for introducing our non-veg family and friends to vegan food. not everyone is prepared to full on organic quinoia on day one. we still have parties where we have vegan foods but they're ice cream, cake, pizza, chips... one day not every day. i think if you're too fanatical about the 'non processed' you may end up setting people up to fail or saying the is not sustainable long term. don't let perfection be the enemy of the good.
Minimally processed.
I get where you're coming from, but unfortunately the oat milk is a scam. It's made up to 90% of water, rapeseed, and sugar (tons of it to make it taste good). Almonds are still a better option, but I doubt the industry is making it any easier for us.
In the end, switching to veganism will not save the world, but destroying capitalism and industrial society and then switching to a more simpler lifestyle implementing basic, natural and local agriculture will. But that requires a huge leap forward.
He’s referring to ultra processed food (UPF) here, which processed ‘meat substitutes’ are.
There's a difference between lightly and heavily processed though. He references ultra processed foods in this video that's what he's referring to. Frozen fruits aren't processed as much as these meats he's talking about. I think it's helpful to understand the risks of any food whether processed or not. But technically the majority of foods are processed, apples seeds for example are all cloned and haven't evolved naturally unless you go forage crab apples. Many fruits are now ripened/reddened with gas instead of sunlight etc. It's good to be knowledgeable about our agricultural landscape.
informative vid!! what about meat substitutes like tofu, seitan or tempeh? how often should you be including them in your diet? same with plant based soy milk, almond milk & oat milk? are they healthy or would you be better off cutting them out all together or having them in moderation?
Please do more in depth videos on this subject. Thoroughly enjoyed this video.
I have been Vegan for over two years now, and this is the message I've been trying to tell people! eat fresh not processed , you can be a bad vegan !
Piss off !!!!
Who are you to judge who is a good or bad vegan
@@simond.7912 I think they were trying to be helpful in what is healthy for your body to process which isn't processed foods! I'm not vegan but I get what they are saying!
There are some vegan meat-alternatives which aren’t ultra processed, and they’re so much tastier imo and much more natural - seitan and tofu and banana blossom 😃
why do you have to eat fake meat... if you are vegan... then no meat it is simple. why not falafel ?
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TOFU is terrible for men
Soy is terrible for you.
@@benzun9600 BS. Tell that to the Japanese.
You can’t even try to be not funny 😂😂 You give so much to the world please don’t change 🙏🏼
What's that plugged into your power socket (below the gong) ?
Beyond meat has Bill Gates behind it, as soon as I found that out, I avoided that range completely. I have noticed that many vegan prepared products don,t really state what it is them, so it,s good not to eat them regularly! Even the vegan cheeses have many more ingredients than you would believe, not all bad ones. I agree Russell we must live in a more conscious way!
That's really odd because most and my preferred faux meat has a full list of ingredients and very few chemicals and the flavouring are named plants like beetroot . Chives mint etc
Bill Gates has a favorite food: Hamburger. (yes, really).
Plenty of vegan cheeses have only cashews and salt as ingredients.
@@delhi93 I don't doubt that one bit..Scream about it while behind closed doors eating steak!
@@birgik yes, but not all.
When i went vegan it made me start to question everything about my life, the fact that something i was doing 3 times a day was morally reprehensible and it disguised itself as just being a meal made me think about the world very differently. Although i do eat these processed products at times i was never eluded into thinking they were healthy as i had fell for the same marketing schemes from the meat industry. I personally think the main market audience of these fake meats is flexitarians who haven’t questioned there beliefs and awakened themselves yet
senomyx is HEK or human embryo kidney, which is why its called campbells cream of fetus soup.
Do you think that the meat industry marketing machine worked very well 10,000 yrs ago, pre-agriculture, when EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING ON EARTH ate meat regularity? Do you not think there is another reason that veganism is only 80 yrs old? Can you explain why primitive tribes today can exist entirely on animal products? No vegan culture has ever existed?? Why? Why? Can't all be because of 'meat industry propaganda' can it? Seems more logical that it is vegan propaganda that has twisted your mind...
@@OliHandy2008 pre-agriculture, meat was not the main component of peoples diets most people will have lived predominately off plants apart from through winter when people HAD to eat meat to survive. The reason people were eating meat 10,000 years ago was for survival not for gluttonous unnecessary taste pleasure and addiction through mass marketing. Its only in the past lets say 50 years that we have developed technology to allow us to produce vast quantities of plant foods that can be supplied to everyone in a 1st world country that is why full vegan civilisations have never existed (although you can probably find some small groups that lived plant based)
@@pkfroggatt no. We are apex predators. We kill and eat other animals. It is perfectly natural. Also 'winter' lasted for a long time in the ice age. Wooley mammoths didn't eat meat to survive, they ate lichen and grasses. We ate wooley mammoths. Nature.
@@pkfroggatt also pre agriculture was at least 190,000 yrs of our evolution. Veganism is 80 yrs old...it's a new fad. No denying it.
Love the crow on your sweatshirt. New merch?
Hi Russel, great to hear you're part of our commune and bringing up this important subject.
About me: grew up with my grandparents on a small farm n stopped eating animals back in the 70:ies...having decided not to eat my friends. I eat whole food plant based, all colours, seasonal/local....supporting small fruterias (spanish for green grocers). There I can avoid the horrible tasteless veg and over packaging. I bring my reusable containers n a bag, buy my lentils/beans, veg/fruit, almonds or other dried fruit (here nuts/seeds and dried dates, figs, apricots are grouped into drued fruits) and spice all lose weight. Less food/plastic waste, less expensive than supermarkets n you know them. Sure you're getting tomatoes with few blemishes or wonky zucchini but you can also feel safe scraping your avocado to the peel without that bitter flavour😊. I prefer a few bug attacks on my non perfect looking food than neonics (a nerve toxin) n other pesticides. And I sometimes make burger patties (lentil based with potatoes n lots of spices) or other "pretend" meat dishes. But mostly I love my curries, stews with potatoes, chickpeas n veg....slow cooking, or pita bread filled with lil falafel balls, simple homemade hummus with bread n tomatoes, aubergine fried drizzled with molasses, apple n onion salad with sesame oil, seeds, cilantro etc. Mexican tortilla with red beans, hot sauce, fresh tomatoes, lettuce and chunks of avocado (season just starting as figs are going...so I'm sad/happy 😂 every year). But I also like an almost full English breakfast for tea...just the beans, mushrooms, tomatoes, toast with homemade hummus (sometimes jam). Never tried bacon or any pig flesh..nor the pretend one. I was forced to eat a kind of blood soup after just seeing that hen being killed 😭 n other odd stuff like boiled toughe 🤢 bc my nan thought I'd die....so there was a lot of hiding stuff in pockets, lies etc. Until I got my 1st real paid job n flat at 15. As a moving in present a friend gave me an Indian cookbook. I have tried those Mc Carty sausages n the beyond burger but not a real fan. I mean I eat them, especially if someone went through the trouble of inviting for dinner n made that. I'll off course be appreciative not rude. But also during the decades I've been to countless dinners eating the sides; potatoes, veg, bread. No hassle. Tofu I do buy sometimes, non American peanut butter and marmite (full of b12) and great to drizzle on or cook with...so I'm not fundamentalist but processed food isn't very good, that's all. I never knew you're vegan but happy you are. Hope you find good recipes to make "substitutes". Instagram is brilliant for this. All the very best of luck to you 🍀 Edit; maltodextine is a vegetable starch, so the body metabolites it as glucose I believe. Most vegan cheese is okay too...often mainly nuts n stabilsers. However I think we should push for easy to understand labelling on processed food. So brilliant that you use you platform in this way 👏. Obvs don't know you but I like you anyway.
I was eating a bag of cheese flavoured crisps a while ago and was curious as to why they weren't classed as vegetarian. Having read the ingredients discovered they had 'rennet' listed. This is apparently found in the stomach/intestines of animals to make the cheese. Needless to say I am a lot more conscious of what I eat😕
Good for you Kate! The dairy industry is horrific
No here you're just being paranoid. Rennet is used to ferment cheese just like yeast is used to ferment bread. There's nothing gross about it. You eat stuff comes from way grosser places every day. So relax. But it's probably best to avoid ultra processed food for the bad quality fat.
Many vegetarians don't realize most cheeses aren't vegetarian.
That is how cheese was invented. Goat herders storing goat milk in slaughtered goat stomachs like a sack.
@@lamenamethefirst Rennet is obtained from the stomach lining of calves so isn't vegetarian let alone vegan.
i'm vegan 4 years. Being from Greece, mediteranean kitchen have so many veg and fruit recipes that i dont need a sub for meat which is the food i droped out of my life. Thank you for this video :)
Omg yes! I’ve been vegan for two years and recently decided to make my own falafel and hummus and…omg. It was soooo delicious. Pita will be next!
Love that your spreading truth !!! 5th dimension is here !!!!✨🙏💕🌸
Claro! Ser consiente de qué nos llevamos a la boca. Con eso me quedo. Primer vídeo tuyo que veo. Me gustó. Gracias
Thank you for speaking up for the suffering animals, Russell.
Wow mate! The suffering animals, they must need electro shock therapy or are god damn antidepressant, they don't know dude! They live a better life than most humans except billionaires!
@@damianbrown6587 they're all bred, exploited and killed against their will... I'd hope you and everyone you know has a better life than that...
@@damianbrown6587 Animal agriculture is rife with sexual assault/mutilation, physical abuse and neglect, all to live a small fraction of your lifespan and die a violent death, for someone to eat you when they could get protein from other foods. No one wants that life.
i was a vegetarian for 10 years on nothing but ultra-possessed junk foods, i can't express to you, the depression I've felt - over the pandemic I found my way to being Vegan and I'm on a whole-food-plant-based-diet lol, lost over 100lbs and my mental health is really improving, I have had a lot of these plant based alternatives in the past, but I'm at a point where I feel like I'm treating an addiction, If I give in to anything "reward" or "treat" then I might fly off the handle, you know? my plan that I'm on is very strict, but it's where I need to be. that being said, I'm so happy these alternatives exist, no, they aren't worse than what they pretend to be! if you're eating a nugget, you've already done your body bad, you get what I mean?
Have you seen Heavenly Fan’s channel? She is vegan Keto and has some super unique recipes. I’m not Keto or vegan but need to eat gluten free and her recipes are. She does a whole food approach. So good.
Thank you for going vegan
I have known about the dangers of hydrogulated vegetable protein for a long time, when I was a vegetarian 25 years ago a little research threw up the bad news about this popular ingredient in most vegetarian products.
It's not that hard to make a very tasty lentil burger with mushrooms, learn how to treat tofu from Asian cookbooks it can take on a variety of textures ( crispy skin sheets, frozen then defrosted and squeezed out is better to fry and absorb sauces )
Legumes make great curries, battered eggplant tastes alot like fish.
If you put a little effort in you don't have to eat the chemically bad stuff
@@rodentmamasolo Honestly, keto is borderline stupidest way to eat, for species like us which fundamentally run on glucose. Fat will always be inferior to carbs and even if you are some extremely rare 1 out of a million genetic anomaly and have issues with carbs...there is always a way, but hey, each to their own i suppose, their body after all.
@@Kristers_K lol no. What you just said is dumb
Our stomachs aren't meant to survive on heavy greens, and carbs. Humans developed eating meat
Historically, the healthiest, most intelligent societies have great access and diets heavy in meats
I am 3 weeks into my journey. It's different, but I am hanging in there!
Where do I sign up for the mailing list?
Being fully plant based, we gotta use our common sense. Try and eat most of your meals being whole, real foods, loads of veggies/fruits/legumes/grains etc. and limit the processed faux meats as a rare treat. I can tell they are not healthy, not as bad as a cow patty of course, but still I like to eat them from time to time. I think if you use an 80/20 or 90/10 you are ok to eat those processed meats.
We will ride right past your brainwashing that a "cow patty " is "unhealthy " despite being debunked 444335665433578865 times.
If you want to make arguments about ethical food , fine I'm there with you.
If you want to make arguments against mega corps and factory farming , fine , I'm right there with you.
If you want to make arguments about being more spiritual and less harmful to sentient creatures fine, I'm right there with you.
But when you are making false statements about healthy foods like beef or bison ( eaten by first peoples for tens of thousand of years) , you lose credibility, and show either :
Your intellectual dishonesty
Or
Your intellectual deficiently.
Which are you?
@@roonbare2769 Only the last of the free indiginous people were nomadic following migrating bison. That was because the Army chased them away from their woodland homeland. The indiginous American peoples were mostly complete vegetarian and stationary. They grew huge beautiful gardens. They raised zero meat animals. Even their Turkeys were sacred to them and none of them EVER killed or consumed turkey meat. Prior to spanish conquest genocide they kept flocks of tame deer. Everything you have heard about Thanksgiving and hunter gatherer indiginous is lies. Thanksgiving turkey is not on the idigionous diet. Most all of our vegetables were developed by American idiginous peoples. They created irrigation canals and farmed all varieties of maize, cucurbits, legumes, peppers, tomatatoes, potatoes, and much more veggies you do not even care to know of. Bison were in hundreds of thousands in the prairies because they roamed the humanless prairies without modern human intervention or extermination. The Buffalo Soldiers exterminated the migrating bison to extinction in 3 years and burned their mountains of bones for lime. Today Yellowstone exterminates the last true herd of 5000 each winter secretly killing 2000 annually while park is closed to keep the bison from ever migrating free again.
Been vegan for 3 years now. I'm totally with ya, Russ!
Thank you for going Vegan three years ago! I hope your body continues to thrive on veganism.
Me too! I love the food and I love the way it makes me feel!
Just switch to plant base a few days ago, after my blood pressure sent me to the hospital. I continued to have high blood pressure.. I bought a lot of meat alternatives 😅 I made plant base chicken Alfredo, spaghetti is up next.. I bought tofu haven’t figured out how to cooked it lol. I’m sure as time goes on, I’ll add more beans etc but so far it’s helping me stay on plant base..
Thank you Russell I found this very helpful
Next month is my 2 year vegan anniversary! While I prefer to eat a whole food plant-based diet, I will dabble in the junk food. Also, it's important to find and learn recipes that mimic those junk foods like your burgers and such BUT HEALTHY!
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ugh been making veggie burgers with vital wheat gluten because of the texture difference. they’re way too mushy otherwise. now i’m paranoid i need to cut that ingredient out but i have no desire to cook or eat fresh vegetable dishes every day. i just make a bunch of patties at once and pop them out the freezer. fake cheeses are all potato based too, it just seems like a lot of carbs involved but keto vegans can’t lift their own car keys without feeling sore from the muscular stress. i keep thinking eventually i’ll train myself to like stuff that isn’t fake burgers and seitan recipes i make at home. eventually.
I love love love the fact that you’re able to bring humour and lightheartedness to a subject that so frequently is intense and heavily morally loaded. Superb Russell, thank you.
Been a vegan for only 5 years now and in the beginning I was really consumed with the plant based stuff. I began to learn more about canola oil and other seed oils and realized that I was making a big mistake. Today I stay away from plant based food and only consumed them once in a blue. What I do eat a bit more is Seitan, but all in moderation.
I agree that most commercial meat substitutes are too salty and too processed. I have gotten into the habit of making homemade seitan once a week, and it’s great to be able to decide how to favour it and how much salt to add.
I was saying this the other day .. I found myself eating alot of fake meats since the vegan diet became more popular and I definitely don't feel as clean and light as I did a few years ago.. time to change my lazy pattern of eating .. thanks I definitely don't want a sausage with an agenda either lol
I have written 2 vegan songs th-cam.com/video/NSGfQdZKd_Q/w-d-xo.html and other songs on my channel. This one is called Rebels 🌱🌍💕🐖🐄🐓🍓 It would be amazing if you could give it a listen and comment your thoughts in the comments on my TH-cam videos!
Every time I try a product that is trying to be meat, I am kind of grossed out. Ive never enjoyed meat, and have been vegan leaning vegetarian for 40 years - so I really DO NOT want my food to be trying to look and taste like meat! RARELY does any processed product ever taste better than fried tofu or pinto beans on corn tortillas or other simple foods with just an ingredient or 2.
Tofu?? The OG king of unhealthy, processed food.
Tofu!!! Nice if you enjoy munching on rubber 🤣
@@charliedillon1400 not true . tofu is fermented soy beans. fermented soy beans is the best way to eat soy beans.
@@saadabbas7282 No. Tempeh is fermented soy beans. Tofu is not fermented. Although there is one brand where I live breaking into the market which is now offering “fermented” tofu.
Good for you princess ... But there is a large growing market of ppl who LOVE meat but want to eat more ethically ... That's who these products are targeting .
Most ppl love meat , so if we want to create a kinder world for animals , these type of products are helpful.
Question is , how to make them more healthy and cost effective.
Always most excellent Russell.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Very well said!!!
You are a beacon of light in this world of imbalance and ignorance of interconnectedness. Thank you 🌞
I have written 2 vegan songs th-cam.com/video/NSGfQdZKd_Q/w-d-xo.html and other songs on my channel. This one is called Rebels 🌱🌍💕🐖🐄🐓🍓 It would be amazing if you could give it a listen and comment your thoughts in the comments on my TH-cam videos!
Okay folks. I am a vegan. I agree with Russell and the author in that popular animal-meat alternatives like Beyond and Impossible aren't exactly healthy... but they aren't "the worst junk food of all." If you watch this video by Mic, you'll see that plant-based meat is a better option than traditional meat. Just because it is "processed" doesn't mean it is automatically unhealthy--just because it is "plant-based" doesn't mean it is healthy. You have to compare the alternatives. If you really wanted to be healthy, then you probably wouldn't be eating a delicious, high-sodium burger (animal meat or plant-based). These products don't exist for the health. They exist for people that are closed off to veganism and plant-based food and that believe the common misconception that plant-based food doesn't taste good. Not only this, but the products exist so that people can have an alternative tasty product to animal-based meat at their barbeques that isn't as bad for the environment. Fact of the matter is that most vegan and plant-based products are much better for the environment, a thousand times better for the animals, and slightly better (or the same) for your health.
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Anything is better than eating flesh. I totes agree with you. As a vegan chef, just getting peeps to open their minds with their mouths can be challenging. These products are a great intro, but I know they can be a bit more healthy and still tasty. Much love
not true at all! Most highly processed vegan "foods are not made from ingredients free of pesticides and or herbicides. They are not generally GMO free either which automatically means that Roundup or other herbicides will be part of the production process of the plant based ingredients. Agricultural chemicals are incredibly toxic to the environment for plants and animals. The argument that GMO or conventionally grown vegan food are better for animals and the environment is a lie, it's just the kind of lie that "happens" due to not disclosing the actual truth. It's just Big Chemical Food making a buck as usual.
So true. Watching "The Game Changers" you can see that just switching one meal from meat burger to plant-based burger shows dramatic improvement in the athlete's blood already. No doubt there'll be similar improvement in terms of heart disease, etc. Those plant-based meat is certainly better then real meat. Even better would be to eat non-processed plant-based, of course. That usually follows after a person go plant-based for a while.
@@kerryf9399 Which is better. killing animals to eat them or not killing animals to eat them?
How do you feel about meal replacement shakes?
❤ good on you russel brand, god bless you
I make healthy vegan meats! its i use, jackfruit and banana flowers and seasoning, tastes+ texture+ and bite is all there. And gotta say. Methyl-cellulose sounds bad, but its actually refined dietary fibre, so actually quite good for you!
I wish I could get jackfruit I miss it ..
I totally disagree...it is a "chemical compound" derived from cellulose. Not something I would want in my food.
Invite someone who’s on a carnivore diet for an interview! A lot of them claim to be thriving. Would be interesting to see.
All he'd have to do is interview Dr. Jordan Peterson, which I believe he already has. 😉 Peterson shared on Joe Rogan about trying the all meat diet, as his daughter Mikaela has been on it for years to curb her Juvenile Arthritis pain.
(sorry I know her name is spelled incorrectly, I can't recall correct spelling).🤷♀️
I honestly believe that listening to your body is key and eating REAL, WHOLE foods is also crucial. With that said we need to remember that we are all different and one size definitely does not fit all, esp when it comes to food. It could also be yet another thing used to divide us as well!🤔😉
@@corithefrugalflower Agree with you! I tried vegetarian and vegan but it's like poison for my body. I eat a varied diet based on real ingredients, a little bit of everything, listening to my body and I never felt better. Processed foods is the thing to avoid.
Earthling Ed would be a great interview. He does debates with dug in carnivores, and well, guess who prevails?
@@sarahdee374 you missed the point entirely. You cannot get heme iron from plants and vegetables so the 95% of the iron processes in your body use heme iron. You cannot get b12.
Being a vegan is a luxury for snooty rich people who can buy supplements.
If you buy b12 you CANNOT call yourself a vegan.
@@WhoDaresWinso7 meat eaters are supplemented by proxy - B12 is given to livestock as the pastures are too sterile to provide it due to overgrazing - as for Iron - it's easily achieved without eating flesh and the upside being - your body cannot over absorb it as it dumps the excess. I can get a third of my iron daily requirements by just eating beans on toast......as for being a luxory - check out the vegan turorials on eating for £1 a day - nothing expensive about legumes, rice, past and grains etc
This was brilliant! Thank you!
Thank you for the information
I am celebrating two years organic whole food vegan diet this month. Feeling better at 53 than I did at 33. Plant power. Giving up animal products is one step. Giving up sugar and processed food is another. Eat real food.
@@caloriebuddy Please disclaim away. You've got some great ideas there.
I agree fluoride is a death trap for teeth, but unfortunately the dental community are all obsessed with it due to the whitening ability. Since when having ivory colored teeth was bad? I have natural ivory colored teeth and dentists tell me my teeth are yellow. WTF!?! Since when ivory is yellow? I question that because I studied art for nearly 6 years and have degrees on color theory and my teeth are nowhere close to yellow. *pulls out crayola crayon yellow* This is yellow.
I love looking into aryuvedic cookbooks for ideas to make delicious yummies.
I love how you connect the dots between how our lifestyles affects the system. The industries are due to the monetary-market system encouraging such practices through using profits as a means of rewarding such bad practices. I do hope to experience something like Jacque Fresco Venus Project level of post-money civilization. I would love to say what Capt. Picard told the 20th century survivors, "A lot has changed. People are no longer obsessed with the accumulation of things. We've eliminated hunger, want, the need for possessions. We've grown out of our infancy." Star Trek was always ahead of everything. It predicted the smart watch and hopefully predict a resource-based economy.
You should try organic whole food animal based. Then you would see that it is not the source of the food (animal or plant) but the rest that affects how you feel. Processed sugary food is poison. Plant or animal powered. Poison. Giving up sugar and processed food is step 1. No need for more steps to feel great.
@@OliHandy2008 if there are no means of eating plants all year round as you claim then how would you feed the animals you exploit. They do not live on grass alone far from it. They are bred on mass in sheds and fed grain and antibiotics, growth hormones, animal derivatives, gmos .....
@@andyc7747 the reason they do that is because they are breeding over 70 billion animals ever year, they need to replace them all in a short space of time. If they switched to holistic farming or regenerative farming they would need much more land for them to roam freely. They would still have to grow crops to feed them, even more land. Less animals to sell higher expense, more people going hungry, less land for growing plants, less trees, less wildlife because they would still be shot to protect animal agriculture.
@@andyc7747 it isn't, animal agriculture is destroying the land and poisoning the water. Animals are sentient beings who should not be killed for a sandwich. Meat and dairy are causing inflammatory disease and responsible for the top 14 causes of death. It is subsidised and run by lobbyist.
Ohh and read also "beyond meat and impossible meat saved 1 million animals from being killed in farms last year. Would love russell to go deeper into this.
But what happened to those animals? They procreate like everything else does
@@skyangel6336 They are not on factory farms enjoying one another's company. They are bred into existence in some pretty awful ways.
@@Kinikia95 I was just wondering what they do with the animals and what about them breeding? I don't agree with bad farming practices...Just wondered how they handle that part?
Thank u! Gr8 Eyeopener.
Thank you for your videos.
I really appreciate how intellectually honest you are Russell.
Hi Russell thank you for putting this out there. Keep it coming It sickens me, the lack of regulations to over see companies like this. Profit over everything else. People are run ragged just trying to survive, most don’t have the time, interest or energy to know what’s happening. Sometimes we are lucky to have a friend or relative who’s in the know and keeps us informed. We live in a time right now where we can’t trust the media. The tech companies are contributing massively to poor addictive mental health. If western society doesn’t get its obesity epidemic under control by firstly telling us the truth about all the processed garbage we consume thinking it’s healthy. Most health care programs will buckle under the pressure. Education is a must unfortunately for a lot of people especially in the United States they don’t value it or the teachers. Sad considering this is supposed to be the greatest country in the world. Definitely something wrong with this picture. I feel for the US citizens. This world for me is a very sad place, not for me you see I’ve already lived a big chunk of my life. It’s for all the younger generations. Let’s hope for a good future. Let’s hope people will start to wake up and come together for positive change. Power in numbers. I’m a child of the 60s Thanks for letting this young boomer have a say. God Bless and out of respect and admiration God save our Queen 🤓🇨🇦
Russell, I’ve always liked you, but this video has given me a new reason to freaking love you! Thank you for the food for thought. I’ve recently made the decision within the last month that I needed to become vegan for myself, and my health. I’ve been eating the fake stuff, along with the natural, and what hit me the hardest was when you said that the fake meat gives you cravings to eat more of it. I have been feeling said cravings for it a lot lately, but this has opened my eyes, and now I need to ween myself off of the impossible patties and beyond meats.
Well done and thank you for sharing 🕊
@@tgomes1997 thank you 🙏🏾
Vegan for 7 years. Loving it and never looked back. Thanks for the talk. Good to hear your opinion & further inspires me to stop being lazy and make all my food from scratch❣💫
How many health problems and mental illnesses have you acquired since you started the diet?
@@bolivar4537 Seriously......None.