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I learned, I'm allergic to plants so I looked it up. All this anti meat stuff is kinda scary to me and I'm afraid of depression and anxiety comming back so I might be biased.

There is something called anti-nutrients, they prevent you from absorbing minerals or if allergic use up your vitamins to battle inflammation. There are lectins in peas. I don't know how much of the lectins will still be in there after the processing, but I'd avoid plant protein for that reason, exception might be avocado protein, but they're a waste of global resources if you can buy animal protein pasture raised locally. Or if you care for the animals, insect protein might still be healthier, although it might require the supplementation of chitinase.




I was a vegetarian for a long time and then was forced to start eating primarily meat by food allergies, intolerance and celiac disease. I know what you mean - lack of availability of fresh chickens to cook would render life very difficult for me. Surviving on vegetable sources is difficult because almost everything gets contaminated with wheat/barley/rye and if not that, tree nuts.

I had to cut out almost all grains and the foods that make me feel best overlap with the paleo and AIP diets.


Yeah, my wife is allergic to legumes so this explosion of pea protein in everything is worrying to us, too. It's easy enough to avoid peas themselves, since people generally know what they are and if they're in dishes they're making, but people are pretty clueless about what goes into their fancy, whole foods flours or whatever. Pea protein, for instance, is in a lot of almond milk these days.


also gmo mixing up between different plant species




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