Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)
by sdenton4 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:03PM
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Meat allergies certainly exist. Meet Alpha-Gal syndrome:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/alpha-gal-syn...
Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)
by inter_netuser on Friday May 07, 2021 @05:21PM
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Even this syndrome (not an actual allergy but sensitization via tick vector) - is extremely rare. few cases per million.
10% of the mediterranean basin is allergic to some sort of plant food (and that prevalence is growing).
Primary allergy is to LTPs, lipid transfer proteins - which means those people be likely allergic to at least one of many components of this burger. In 70-80% cases such reactions are usually systemic and often severe.
In short: this burger can put 5-10% of the population in Spain, Italy, Greece on an ambulance.
Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)
by wyager on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:09PM
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Alpha-gal is extremely rare and introduced exogenously (via a tick bite). Natural (i.e. not caused by an identifiable medical condition) meat allergies in humans are exceedingly rare, whereas natural plant allergies are exceedingly common.
..but nobody is allergic to meat.
There is a theory that benefits mostly ascribed to keto, are actually due to reduced inflammatory load in the diet.