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BREAKING: \u201cAmericans Haven\u2019t Given Up on Plants\u201d!\u00a0\u00a0Thank God!\u00a0\u00a0For a minute, I was worried!<\/p>

Read more On the seventh day he did what?<\/a><\/p>\n

The story is that it kinda-sorta looks as though people are sick of being vegan.\u00a0\u00a0Between the new MAHA and certain influencers doing whatever it is that influencers do (\u201cboy kibble\u201d is the buzzword in the linked story), it looks as though plant food is felled, and meat food is once again ascendant.<\/p>\n

But never fear:<\/p>\n

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Earlier this year, to explore some of these disparities, BITE looked into\u00a0the protein trend. We analyzed social media influencers and the topics they write about, and what we saw was pretty striking. People are preoccupied with protein, not necessarily meat. In fact, we saw that the vast majority of Americans didn’t have strong feelings about getting their protein from meat versus plants; they’re open to it all. They might think of meat first, but when presented with other solutions to hit their protein goal \u2014 spirulina! moringa!\u00a0chickpeas! \u2014 they’re all ears. Well, almost.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I won\u2019t claim to \u201chave been tracking food trends for the better part of the last 15 years\u201d (cynical translation: 7.51 years), but I do number myself among the apparent fringe minority who \u201chave strong feelings about getting their protein from meat.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0And in the better part of the years I\u2019ve spent tracking food trends, I\u2019ve seen this narrative pretty well embedded: The unhealthy <\/em>healthy people, the trend-followers, the people who take pictures of their $56-plus-tax-and-tip restaurant meals, pursue their protein quota with Impossible and Beyond stuff.\u00a0\u00a0The real <\/em>healthy people, the hipsters who were doing it before it was cool, go for beans and chickpeas.\u00a0\u00a0And both parties agree that the protein source to be avoided at all costs is the most efficient, effective, and delicious one.<\/p>\n

Call this the protein micro-narrative, an example of the bigger problem Americans have with food.\u00a0\u00a0We all know we need protein, and we all know the most natural way to get it: meat, eggs, milk.\u00a0\u00a0But those are scary, or expensive, or inhumane, so we must eat plants (or bugs) instead.\u00a0\u00a0Scientists and doctors and James Bond villains knock the easiest thing, the most natural thing, off the table.\u00a0\u00a0And so the arms race begins to see which huge company can most horrifically adulterate bean or chickpea mush to make it look like the cheeseburger we all, in our heart of hearts, and literally in our stomach of stomachs, would prefer to eat.<\/p>

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If you\u2019re enlightened, you go for straight chickpea mush or blueberries and yell at all your friends about how they\u2019re \u201csuperfoods.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0For the plebs, there\u2019s the \u201cplant-based\u201d fake burger in the flashy box.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the macro-narrative, that \u201cbigger problem\u201d I mentioned.\u00a0\u00a0We American moderns are a little bit \u201catomic\u201d in our thinking: When we notice that, say, protein is good for us, we scramble to isolate a protein source, pull that \u201cprotein atom\u201d out, discard the husk, and concentrate the atom for the most efficient possible consumption.\u00a0\u00a0This is how we get products like Fairlife\u2019s Core Power Elite milk product, which promises 42 grams of protein per bottle by running milk so hard through a filter that all of its components, including the protein molecules, get separated.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cDismembered milk\u201d is perhaps too poetic, so they call it \u201cultra-filtered\u201d instead.<\/p>\n

Eventually, we trade food for nutrient dust and think we\u2019re healthy because the numbers on the label check out, even if we\u2019re spending half our day on the toilet.\u00a0\u00a0Those \u201cprotein-packed\u201d chickpeas are just the \u201cfood dust\u201d version of meat.<\/p>\n

Americans stressed out about how to eat healthy would do well to stop listening to \u201cboy kibble\u201d influencers.\u00a0\u00a0Find a good source of meat \u2014 say, a nearby farm \u2014 and get yourself the ingredients to make a proper cheeseburger, in your own kitchen, minus sixteen different types of taxes and a coercive 25-percent tip.\u00a0\u00a0If you want to add some bean paste as a side or a topping, go for it.\u00a0\u00a0But we\u2019ll be a happier, healthier country when we stop isolating our nutrients in weird, convoluted sources, like mad scientists, because we have so many more important things to do than eat.<\/p>

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Image via Pixabay.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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