By Ileana Zambrano

A few weeks ago, while I was on my way on the bus, I was listening to two-person discussing why it is necessary to stop eating meat, one person was saying that she was vegan, and his partner explained that he could not stop consuming at least one portion daily; a suggestion offered by the vegan person was to start reducing the amount per day and, also try “beyond meat” option, he said that if he began to do that he would be healthier and would feel better.

After that, I was thinking of that choice (beyond meat), besides I had already noticed that nowadays there are many restaurants with this menu to vegetarians and vegans. Yet, how healthy can it be? would it be a better option? Is it convenient to stop eating meat?

I started seeking information and found that, for example, The Beyond Burger contains close to 20 ingredients, including refined coconut oil, pea protein isolate, and flavoring. According to Schwartz, this food qualifies as a highly processed food (Telpner M., 2019). This left me thinking that if we wanted to eat healthily, it would be necessary to look for other options. Moreover, the market sells us the perception through advertising that this type of “meat” is a plant-based food, and therefore it is healthy. Additionally, many people believe it when they hear others’ experiences. Unfortunately, these individuals do not research deeply, instead, they only read the ingredients when they buy these products.

Consumers are blind when they buy food thinking it’s healthy because once the food has been processed, the main element disappears, no matter whether it is plant-based (Bharti B., 2019).

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References

Bharti , B (2019, August). Vegan Beyond Meat burgers are just ultra-processed patties that can be bad for our health. Retrieved from:

Vegan Beyond Meat burgers are just ultra-processed patties that can be bad for our health

Telpner, M. (2019, August). Is the Beyond Meat Burger Healthy? Retrieved from

Is The Beyond Meat Burger Healthy?

By Carlos Carrillo

Is eating meat a healthy choice? As far as I remember I was raised eating all types of meat, I can tell you that I ate at least one portion of this protein every day while I lived with my parents. Moreover, it is a quite normal diet for a country where the livestock farming accounts for a significant portion of the GDP (Tapasco, Lecop, Ruden, Rivas, & Ortiz, 2019). I was always told that I must eat meat to grow healthy and strong, besides I cannot deny that I enjoy eating a juicy piece of beef. However, ten years ago, I started to notice that several anti-meat movements had arisen as well as studies of which associated meat consumption with diseases such as cancer. Hence, I became involved in the topic, consequently, I began to make my research what it led to me to read various scientific articles. Yet, it was not until I watched “What the health” a fascinating documentary on Netflix which thoroughly explains the correlation between meat and cancer that I made up my mind to change my diet.

As if this were not enough, several studies have demonstrated that meat production has a severe environmental impact (Carrington, 2018). Having said that, I do not pretend you to stop eating meat, I have not even stopped eating it, yet I have considerably reduced its consumption. Besides, you can start making a few changes, and you will surely improve with time. I can assure you that this brings you great satisfaction to your life. I highly urge you to validate all that I written here so that you can begin your way to a better lifestyle.

Here, I leave the link so that you can watch the documentary:

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References

Carrington, D. (2018). Huge reduction in meat-eating ‘essential’ to avoid climate breakdown. The guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/10/huge-reduction-in-meat-eating-essential-to-avoid-climate-breakdown

Tapasco, A., Lecoq, J., Ruden, A., Rivas, J., & Ortiz, J. (2019, Aug. 6). The Livestock Sector in Colombia: Toward a Program to Facilitate Large-Scale Adoption of Mitigation and Adaptation Practices. Frontiers. Retrieved from https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2019.00061/full

Youtube. (2019, May. 11). What the Health. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGF8CZoSlAk&t=33s

 

By Carlos Carrillo and Ileana Zambrano

Welcome to our Blog!!!!!

Are you aware of what you eat? Do you think your body is receiving proper nutrition?

In this blog, we are going to provide you some key information about meat consumption. We are going to write about both the advantages and disadvantages of consuming distinct kinds of meat as well as new trends that have arisen over the last year.

We would like to share our experiences and thoughts about meat consumption, how it has been our diet from our childhood, how our eating habits have evolved, what types of news have impacted on our behavior, how we convey this knowledge to others, and so on.

We consider this topic highly attractive as it involves all of us, therefore you could take advantage of the information you will read here as well as you can follow some practical tips so that you can improve your diet.

Our health is indeed a key factor, however, other concerns stemmed from meat consumption that, in turn, has led to serious consequences to our world. For this reason, we urge you to read our blog so that you can discover what is behind the curtain.

Finally, we hope you can enjoy this blog as much as we are going to enjoy writing it.