The episode reviews vegan myths on nutrition, health, and cost, plus vegan news on emissions, water pollution, Huel, athletic results, and a coaching Q&A.

Myth-busting Sources

• Vegans can't get enough protein
• Plant protein is incomplete
• Soy lowers testosterone
• Can't be vegan with soy or gluten allergies
• Can't be vegan without a ton of supplements
• Can't build muscle on a vegan diet
• All vegans are skinny
• Vegans just eat salads
• Children can't safely be vegan
• Vegan diets automatically improve health and help weight loss
• Humans are natural carnivores who evolved eating mostly meat
• Eating vegan is privileged and expensive
• Vegan diets kill more animals because crop deaths
• Soy is destroying the rainforest / veganism is bad for the environment
• Dairy and eggs are byproducts, nobody is harmed
• Fish don't feel pain
• If veganism isn't perfect, it's pointless

Chapters
00:02 Podcast Kickoff
02:15 Protein Pollution News
03:04 Vegan Athlete Wins
04:42 Myth Busting Begins
04:50 Protein Myth
06:46 Plant Protein Myth
10:58 Soy Hormone Myth
13:02 Allergy Limits
16:00 Supplement Myths
19:40 Muscle Building Myth
20:59 Vegan Salad Myth
22:47 Vegan Kids Safe?
24:54 Health and Weight Loss
26:54 Human Carnivore Myth
29:54 Nature Isn’t Ethics
31:31 Veganism and Cost
33:45 Crop Death Myth
35:22 Soy and Rainforest
36:30 Small Farms Ethical?
38:55 Dairy and Eggs
40:52 Vegan Land Use
44:03 Leather vs Pleather
48:05 Fish Feel Pain
52:13 Imperfect Veganism Matters
57:08 Veganism and Necessities
58:34 Vegans Keep Talking
1:01:47 Vegan Supplement Basics
1:04:48 Book Club Update

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