Deficient Vegans

This week is a replay of one of our favorite episodes about going vegan! We cover lots of cooking and food tips and tricks since that is usually the part that people have the most practical trouble with. We also discuss a few other elements about going vegan. 

Chapters
00:00 Podcast Intro
00:27 Methane News
06:00 Mushroom Farm Switch
11:49 Melon Leather Upcycling
13:56 Vegan Basics
17:29 Cheese Alternatives
24:37 Condiments and Sauces
26:30 Meat Substitutes
30:03 Egg Replacements
32:17 Vegan Dining Out
37:30 Vegan Cooking Tips
44:37 Tofu Texture Tips
45:25 Seitan and Vital Wheat Gluten
49:02 TVP and Protein Swaps
52:36 Kitchen Tools That Matter
56:42 Finding Vegan Protein
1:02:25 Soy-Free Protein Options
1:06:32 Beans, Lentils, and Snacks
1:10:52 Vegan Resources and Media
1:17:46 Practical Vegan Transition Tips
1:19:44 Protein Farts and Gut Health
1:24:45 Book Club Updates

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In this episode:

• Withdrawal vs. consumption, and what green, blue, and grey water footprint actually mean
• 98% of livestock's water footprint is growing feed
• Where AI and data centers really sit, and the two things that beat both

New News

UK prisons must now treat vegan beliefs as protected under the Equality Act, with a guaranteed vegan main-menu option and The Vegan Society consulted on the rules

The Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein and Imperial College London launched a future food accelerator

Tufts researchers found people are far more receptive to "cultivated," "cultured" and "cellular" than "lab-grown", and more willing to buy from brands they already know

Bite-Sized Coaching

From a Reddit AMA: staying consistent when your period wrecks the week. Anticipate the schedule, prep low-friction food ahead of it, and commit to one thing in the gym before you're allowed to decide you're not feeling it

Chapters
0:00 News and Water Basics
3:49 Scaling Future Foods
5:37 Lab Grown Meat Marketing
7:56 Water Footprints Defined
16:22 Global Water Numbers
24:40 AI and Water Use
29:46 Lawns, Laundry, and Water
32:27 Why Beef Uses So Much
36:45 Dairy Water Footprint
39:51 Pork and Poultry
44:11 Egg Production Costs
44:47 Aquifers and Runoff
51:11 Manure and Dead Zones
56:12 Reducing Your Water Impact
1:05:21 Bite-Sized Coaching

Sources

• Global water withdrawals by sector (FAO AQUASTAT)
• Livestock water footprint, green/blue/grey split (Mekonnen & Hoekstra 2012)
• Tofu, wheat gluten, beans, lentils and almond footprints (Water Footprint Report 47)
• Soy milk footprint (Ercin, Mekonnen & Hoekstra, University of Twente)
• Feed-conversion efficiency (Our World in Data)
• US data center water use, and the golf course comparison (CBS News, citing Lawrence Berkeley National Lab 2023 data)
• Global animal slaughter numbers (Faunalytics)
• Over a third of US food is never eaten (EPA)

Related from us

• TVP recipes, if you're swapping out beef
• Bean recipes worth keeping in rotation
• A beginner's guide to micronutrients if you're cutting animal products

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Pigs can solve mirror puzzles, hold grudges, and comfort a friend who's having a bad day. So why do we call them dumb?

Last week we covered what factory farming does to the water and the air. This week we cover what it does to the pig. 

In this episode:

• Where "dirty, dumb, eats anything" came from and why every one of those is something we did to them, not something they are

• Seven of eight pigs found food they could only see in a mirror, in an average of 23 seconds

• A pig can live 10-15 years, sometimes 20. On a factory farm it lives about six months

• A 280-pound pig gets roughly eight square feet

New News

• Faunalytics surveyed 801 Indian Gen Z adults on plant-based eating

• Researchers at Empa Switzerland built a virtual mouse to reduce and eventually replace animal testing 

• An Argentine court recognized two goldfish from a sushi-restaurant display as sentient beings with rights 

Sources

• EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare, "Welfare of pigs on farm," 2022 

• Broom, Sena & Moynihan, "Pigs learn what a mirror image represents and use it to obtain information," Animal Behaviour, 2009 

• Marino & Colvin, "Thinking Pigs: A Comparative Review of Cognition, Emotion, and Personality in Sus domesticus," 2015

• Knauer et al., "A descriptive survey of lesions from cull sows harvested at two Midwestern U.S. facilities" Iowa State University, 2007

• Jonathan Safran Foer, "Eating Animals"

Chapters

0:00 News and Pig Perspective
8:55 Virtual Mice Breakthrough
10:14 Goldfish Get Rights
11:33 Pigs Behind Factory Walls
14:40 Pig Intelligence Revealed
22:51 Why Pigs Seem Greedy
25:32 Pig Emotions and Personality
29:26 What Pigs Need Most
33:01 Factory Farm Suffering
35:41 Crates, Floors, and Crowding
42:15 Air and Disease Risks
47:25 Lameness and Mortality
50:12 Mother Pigs and Piglets
54:46 Wrapping Up and Resources

Related from us

• The free Vegan Protein Guide: 110 pages, 40 high-protein recipes, meal plans and a grocery list

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Why are pig factory farm waste lagoons bright pink and why should you care even if you're not vegan?

We get into how America stores millions of gallons of untreated pig waste in open-air lagoons, and the fallout for neighbors, rivers, and the workers nearby.

In this episode:
• Why the lagoons turn bright pink and why the waste is not treated like human sewage
• The toll on nearby communities: asthma, odor plumes, contaminated wells, and "blue baby syndrome"
• A 25-million-gallon spill that dwarfed Exxon Valdez, plus the invisible H2S gas that can kill farm workers in seconds

New News
• Misfits Protein Bars add a new non-vegan line (now whey & bovine collagen), plus fully-vegan bars to switch to
• A biorefinery study says leaf protein from red clover and alfalfa could meet global protein needs in under two years
• Food-tech Savor lands $32M for carbon-captured fats that replace butter and palm oil

Bite-Sized Coaching
• Coaching Q&A (from a Reddit AMA): how to hit your protein without cooking all the time or living on peanut butter: silken-tofu smoothies, TVP in oats, dry-roasted edamame, and easy swaps

• Silken-tofu smoothie
• Red lentil pasta with silken-tofu sauce
• Edamame "crispy treats"

Chapters
0:00 Intro & what's in this episode
0:06 Misfits Betrayal Sparks Debate
2:24 Vegan Protein Bar Alternatives
10:39 Carbon Fat and Biorefineries
12:31 Pink Pools of Pig Waste
23:27 Health Impacts on Nearby Communities
26:17 Water Pollution and Fish Kills
33:58 Manure Gas Worker Dangers
46:41 Safety Rules for Factory Farms
49:21 Easy High-Protein Vegan Meals
52:21 Community Updates and Book Club

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Episode 57 revisits why honey is not vegan and replays a previous discussion. We also discuss some new news and have a bite-sized coaching segment about working out with minimal equipment.

New News

• 75% of British shoppers think farmed chickens aren't caged
• Beyond Mycelium steak store launch
• Plant-based milk vs dairy milk growth
• Good Food Institute report

Chapters
0:06 Podcast News and Honey Teaser
0:40 UK Farmed Chicken Misconceptions
2:51 Beyond Meat Steak Debut
4:26 Plant Milks Gain Ground
18:52 Honey Isn’t Vegan
27:17 Beekeeping Exploits Bees
31:05 Honey Hurts Native Pollinators
35:00 Honey Alternatives and Bee Help
37:20 Home Workouts With Minimal Gear
44:10 Book Club and Farewell

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The episode covers the difficulties and benefits of finding a vegan community. Whether it's online or in-person, a community is helpful to answer questions, provide guidance, and help you feel supported.

New News

• ProVeg report
• Tofu sales
• Leaps by Bayer study

References from Episode

• Faunalytics 2014 study of current and former vegetarians and vegans
• Faunalytics 2023 study on bringing back former vegetarians and vegans
• Faunalytics 2015 Qualitativate Findings

Chapters
0:02 Opening News and Community
3:12 Tofu Sales Are Rising
4:31 Cultivated Meat and Public Views
8:24 Why Vegan Life Feels Lonely
21:32 Former Vegans and Community Gaps
31:20 What Brings People Back
36:05 Community Means Different Things

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This week we are talking about something that is often unappreciated, which is gym and lifting safety. We also discuss why honey isn't vegan.

New News

• Netherlands reduces their national meat recommendations by 40%
• Morningstar Farms voluntarily recalled two products due to possible plastic pieces in the food
• The U.S. cattle herd is at a 75-year low

Chapters
0:02 Podcast Intro and News
4:22 Gym Safety Basics
8:01 Pain or Progress
14:31 Fixing Form Mistakes
21:38 Warm Up Smart
25:10 Solo Lifting Risks
30:27 Bench and Squat Safety
35:55 Kids, Pets, and Gear
44:03 Gym Safety Basics
49:07 Clean Gear Matters
51:55 Spotting Etiquette
54:01 Rest and Recovery
57:06 Equipment and Emergencies
59:47 Honey Isn’t Vegan
1:15:54 Vegan Honey Alternatives
1:18:06 Muscle Confusion Myth
1:22:07 Mean Comments Roundup
1:25:09 Book Club Updates

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This week we talk about mono-cropping, and why the Internet thinks that all the negative consequences of it are because of vegans. We also dive into cold plunging and have a new bite sized coaching segment.

Referenced in Episode

New News:

• Sweet potato milk / Rootsii & App State announcement
• PCRM carnivore/masculinity poll
• University of Exeter meat study

Sources:

• Land Use
• Global Land for Agriculture
• Cold plunges and muscle growth

Chapters
0:08 New News and Nonsense
4:09 Carnivore Masculinity Myths
5:46 When Kids Question Meat
9:12 Defining Monocropping
10:39 Vegans and Monocrop Blame
14:50 Monocrop Problems Explored
19:43 Why Vegans Get Blamed
21:36 Corn, Soy, and Land Use
32:27 Vegan World Land Use
35:47 Smarter Farming Methods
40:08 Vertical Farms at Home
45:15 Cold Plunge Claims
49:12 Women and Cold Exposure
54:51 Ab Training Tips
58:02 Meanest Comment Readings
59:22 Book Club Announcements

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The episode distinguishes veganism as an ethical philosophy from plant-based as a diet, and notes overlap between vegan and LGBTQ+ communities.

Chapters
0:06 Plant-Based Versus Vegan
1:08 Foie Gras Ban Update
2:17 Protein From Air
4:09 Beer Waste Protein
9:19 Main Topic Begins
15:22 Two Movements, Different Roots
20:41 Why Labels Get Mixed
25:13 Veganism Gets Lost
34:12 Animals Disappear from View
41:17 Plant-Based vs Vegan
1:04:20 Pride and Vegan Community
1:15:06 Mean Tweets and Announcements

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We talk about how many of our traditions and memories growing up are tied to food, and how that usually means animal products specifically. Then, we offer up some ideas for how to keep the same traditions and bonding opportunities with vegan swaps.

We also cover our myth of the week this week, which is that vegans can't get enough Omega-3 fats.

Chapters
0:02 Podcast Intro and News
3:56 Oatly’s Pee Fertilizer Project
9:47 Veganizing Sports Traditions
25:17 Hunting, Hiking, and Nature
37:06 Plant-Based Date Nights
45:17 Thanksgiving Food Traditions
49:41 Christmas and Family Meals
58:07 Cookouts and Childhood Classics
1:05:21 Pizza, Parties, and Birthdays
1:10:15 Travel and Vegan Finds
1:15:05 Work Potlucks and School Treats
1:21:52 Omega-3s Without Fish
1:25:27 Book Club and Updates

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