The Great PlantBased Con, Jayne Buxton
The Great PlantBased Con, Jayne Buxton
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The Great Plant-Based Con
Why eating a plants-only diet won't improve your health or save the planet

Author: Jayne Buxton

Narrator: Laurel Lefkow

Unabridged: 19 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/09/2022


Synopsis

'The most incredible book' Delia Smith

'Persuasive, entertaining and well researched' Sunday Times

Plant-based is best for health, go vegan to help save the planet, eat less meat... Almost every day we are bombarded with the seemingly incontrovertible message that we must reduce our consumption of meat and dairy - or eliminate them from our diets altogether.

But what if the pervasive message that the plant-based diet will improve our health and save the planet is misleading - or even false? What if removing animal foods from our diet is a serious threat to human health, and a red herring in the fight against climate change.

In THE GREAT PLANT-BASED CON, Jayne Buxton demonstrates that each of these 'what-ifs' is, in fact, a reality. Drawing on the work of numerous health experts and researchers, she uncovers how the separate efforts of a constellation of individuals, companies and organisations are leading us down a dietary road that will have severe repercussions for our health and wellbeing, and for the future of the planet.

THE GREAT PLANT-BASED CON is neither anti-plant nor anti-vegan - it is a call for us to take an honest look at the facts about human diets and their effect on the environment. Shocking and eye-opening, this book outlines everything you need to know to make more informed decisions about the food you choose to eat.

About Jayne Buxton

In her twenty years as a published author, Jayne Buxton has written on a wide variety of subjects. Her work includes a work of non-fiction, two novels, many short stories, a blog, and journalistic pieces for the Independent, Guardian and others. Jayne is an active supporter of The Real Food Campaign and The Public Health Collaboration.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Agi on May 15, 2024

What is very important to take from this book- support local farmers (meateater or not), eat with the seasons if possible. There are many good points in this book- bioavailability, genetic makeup, cost of monocrops, transport, factory farming, climate change. It does go very deep into some subjects,......more

Goodreads review by Jurgita on October 16, 2022

It's pretty obvious this book will ruffle quite a few feathers which is evident in some reviews here. For me it not only helped to find some puzzle pieces but expanded that puzzle to an enormous size. At times I felt quite overwhelmed by all the data but also intrigued to dig deeper (and yes, I have......more

Goodreads review by Lynda on July 10, 2022

a must read book for everyone concerned about their health.......more

Goodreads review by Stefan on October 04, 2022

A brilliant book that should be in every school. Lost of people will disagree with this as they are caught in the old paradigm of 'fat is bad' and 'cholesterol is bad' and 'carbs are good'. All wrong! The scientist are world class leaders in their respective fields, and know what they are talking abou......more

Goodreads review by Lucy Greenfield on June 23, 2022

An excellently researched and written book outlining the pitfalls of following the current trend of eating only a plant based diet which contrary to fashionable opinion being pushed by billionaires such as George Monbiot and Bill Gates (who have invested billions in their fake meat mass produced "fo......more


Quotes

The most incredible book The Food Programme, BBC Radio 4

How I have waited for this book! A much needed, fact-packed, lucidly argued demolition of pervasive, endlessly recycled, anti-animal source food propaganda, and a very welcome, closely argued, well-reasoned defence of our traditional omnivore diet

A brave, well-researched and highly readable book that confronts the many myths about meat, health and climate change. Buxton's deep dive into the science and politics of these questions makes this book a must-read for anyone who cares about their health - or the planet

THE GREAT PLANT-BASED CON is persuasive, entertaining and well researched ... the book will help to alleviate the guilt many of us feel about our diets Sunday Times

[A] forensic examination of the evidence ... Buxton is brilliant at reminding us of some basic statistical truths, ones that are usually forgotten these days ... It's refreshing to read a book which recognises that life is complicated Daily Mail, Book of the Week

A calm, incisive dissection of veganism's salvationist claim to protect human health and the planet Country Life

In THE GREAT PLANT-BASED CON, Jayne Buxton provides insightful analyses and thoughtful alternatives to narratives about plant-based diets, human and environmental health. Her engrossing account is food-for-thought for everyone, be they herbivorous, omnivorous, or carnivorous. I promote this entrée at every opportunity

THE GREAT PLANT-BASED CON is absolutely exceptional. When you've read works of Gary Taubes and Nina Teicholz, you'll need to add this to your essential reading list. I was ignorant of so much that is so elegantly explained

Intelligent and very well-researched ... [Jayne is] able to be objective and speak out without losing a university seat or a research grant, but with knowledge of the food industry from a career in consultancy. She has sifted through all the scientific arguments fairly and produced a very readable book that explains it all in a way that can easily be digested ... a fascinating read and its intelligent explanation of the way that Big Food makes us ill, and Big Pharma makes another fast buck curing us, may yet make it a seminal classic, similar in its impact to Rachel Carson's brilliant exposé of chemical pesticides, Silent Spring, two generations ago. There is no doubting Buxton's conclusion that we have been conned ... a brave book Daily Telegraph

With incredible skill, Jayne Buxton captures the edifice of intellectual and cultural fraud behind today's mythology of the safety plant-based eating. Everyone needs this important and timely book


Awards

  • Guild of Food Writers Award - Investigative Food Work