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"Vegetable oils are terrible for you?"

At that point, I knew something was up. He is one of those who consider soy harmful to you. Sheer insanity.

Also, he is making an argument on a false pretense: that eating processed meat is somehow okay because its already introduced to our diet. Guess what: it is not good for people. This is a product that is designed to be an alternative to that, not to home-cooked healthy italian meatless alternatives.

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There is quite some data on vegetable oils being unhealthy. Why is that "insanity"?

The insanity is claiming that the oils in Beyond are somehow as bad or worse than the fat found in red meat.

The fats found in red meat are pretty well balanced fats that we, as humans can readily metabolize and use. The risks of saturated fats were never substantiated and walked back significantly in the past decade, and as to cholesterol is actually beneficial to one's numbers (also, see: cholesterol hacking).

Now, the nutrition profile of naturally fed animal sources is very different from garbage/feed fed livestock. Which is another issue at hand.

Personally, I'm allergic to legumes so can't really handle any of the vegetarian options out there.

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