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If I don't eat meat for the taste (which is a gross notion to me) but for the nutritional value does plant based substitute provide at least comparable nutrition? Does it have the aminoacids I would get from meat?

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The bioavailability is much lower and it’s usually filled with factory oils like soybean oil which is not very healthy.

In the documentary "Game Changer" they said this is FUD by the meat industry.

There are many debunkings of The Game Changers, this is a good place to start: https://youtu.be/jClsLOuQ2DE?t=772

"soybean oil which is not very healthy" - can you provide evidence for this?

There are lots of mouse studies that point to bad metabolic effects from soybean oil consumption. Many of these mechanisms are the same in humans. If one wants to start pulling the metaphorical thread on seed oils, this is not hard to do, as long as one realizes that the companies who sell these things will always tell the consumer they are healthy.

https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2020/01/17/americas-most-widel...

Seed oils did not exist in the food supply before the late 1800s, so the idea that they are this amazing health food, while also being incredibly cheap/profitable to produce and really useful in creating junk food really stretches credulity.

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