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Vegan Diets Cut Emissions, Water Pollution and Land Use by 75%, Major Study Finds (www.ecowatch.com)
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study link is here: Scarborough, P., Clark, M., Cobiac, L. et al. Vegans, vegetarians, fish-eaters and meat-eaters in the UK show discrepant environmental impacts. Nat Food 4, 565–574 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-023-00795-w

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346522135_An_Expanded_Genetic_Code_Enables_Trimethylamine_Metabolism_in_Human_Gut_Bacteria

Ultimately, these findings point to new avenues of research that could increase microbiome-informed understanding of human health and hint at potential biomedical applications in which specialized bacteria are used to curtail CVD development.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And what does this have to do with my previous point?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Basically the study found that previous research on TMA's (which are abundous in animal protein) saying they're harmful to humans, may actually be wrong, and that they're in fact beneficial to our health. (edit 2: due to rapid bilophia production in the microbiome, which converts it to DMA?)

I'm not a microbiologist though, and I hope someone with background could expand this into an ELI5.

Edit: If you scroll down on the page, you can find a figure (FIG 1) which gives a more easy to understand view on the study and the impacts animal proteins were found to have.