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● Colorado’s cattle-free “ industrial-scale “Mega-ranch” was just opened in Thornton, Colorado by Meati.
● Meati plans to produce “meat” from mycelium, the root-like structure of a fungus.
● Just one tablespoon of fungi spores is capable of producing the whole-food protein equivalent of hundreds of cows in just a few days.
● Meati’s products include vegan whole-cut steaks and carne asada, along with plant-based alternatives to chicken cutlets in classic and breaded varieties—which are now being made more efficiently than their animal counterparts at the company’s new Mega Ranch.
● Tyler Huggins, CEO and co-founder of Meati, grew up on a bison ranch. With $250 million in funding to date for Meati, Huggins is redefining what modern ranching might look like.
● Meati’s new Mega Ranch near-continuously produces mushroom meat, with a target of producing 45 million pounds annually once the facility is fully operational by late 2023.
News from PCRM (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine)
● PCRM is actively involved in stopping “unethical” experiments by Elon Musk’s Neuralink on monkeys. PCRM and the University of California (Davis) are in litigation over release of videos and photos. The USDA is actively investigating violations of the Animal Welfare Act by Neuralink.
● PCRM billboards in states with highest prostate cancer (Utah, New Hampshire, Mississippi and Wisconsin) urge people to Ditch Dairy to protect against Prostate Cancer.
● Vegan diet rich in soy reduces hot flashes in women by 88%.(PCRM.org/HotFlashes)
● Swapping Animal Products for Vegan Diet Reduces Harmful Compounds (AGEs or Advanced Glycation end-products).
● AGEs (Advanced glycation end-products) cause inflammation and oxidative stress, which can lead to Type 2 Diabetes and Heart Disease.. They are also linked to weight gain.
● High amounts of AGEs are found in meat and dairy ( the Standard American Diet).
● Our bodies have the ability to process and render harmless small amounts of AGEs.
● A new PCRM study of 244 people found that eating a vegan diet reduced the amount of AGEs consumed by 79%.
● Participants were randomly assigned to either a control group (no changes made to diet) or to an intervention group (who ate a low-fat vegan diet) for 16 weeks.
● About 55% of the reduction of AGEs in the plant-based group was attributable to the reduction in meat intake, 26% to decreased dairy intake and 15% to decreased consumption of added fats.
● See PBTV website: AGE Presentation, December 2019.
News from Medscape (Medscape is a website that provides information for clinicians)
Contrary to common belief, potatoes do not have a negative effect on blood glucose levels and can actually help people lose weight, according to researchers at Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center.
This is a summary of the article, "Low-Energy Dense Potato- and Bean-Based Diets Reduce Body Weight and Insulin Resistance: A Randomized, Feeding, Equivalence Trial," published in the Journal of Medicinal Food on November 11, 2022. The full article can be found on pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
● Potatoes are filled with key nutrients, packed with health benefits, and do not increase the risk of type 2 diabetes, as has been assumed.
● People tend to eat the same weight of food regardless of calorie content to feel full, so by eating foods that are heavier in weight and that are low in calories, you can reduce the number of calories you consume.
● Study participants found themselves fuller, more quickly, and often did not even finish their meal when the high-calorie items of their meals were replaced with potatoes.
● Participants were overweight, obese, or insulin resistant, but their blood glucose levels were not negatively affected by the potato consumption, and all of those involved actually lost weight.