You Are What You Eat / Coffee Or Tea

This four-part Netflix doc is so worth the time:

You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment.  

You may (or may not) want to skip ahead a little in the beginning, when they’re introducing the twins and taking all their baseline stats before beginning their 8-week vegan-versus-omnivore diets . . . but it’s about three things I’m guessing you care about:

1. Your health, vitality, and longevity.
2. The planet.  (“Every time you eat a steak, a little puff of smoke goes up in the Amazon.”)  Fascinating to see how and why Eleven Madison Park went vegan and retained its 3 Michelin stars.  And to learn the effect today’s 1.7 billion cows have on climate.
3. Animal cruelty.  Cows and chickens, pigs — and, yes, fish.  I knew a lot of this stuff, but . . . wow.  Meet the guy who went from raising millions of chickens in four enormous CAFOs to, now, growing mushrooms instead.  And the founder of Impossible meat.  And the woman who makes plant-based cheese.

If you haven’t made yourself a Beyond or Impossible burger lately, watching You Are What You Eat (here’s the 2-minute trailer) — just might get you to try one.  When you do, I think you may find they really now are just as delicious as the estimated 50 billion planet-destroying, cow-torturing variety Americans eat every year.

I’m no strict vegetarian, let alone vegan . . . but I’m leaning ever more that way.

BONUS: COFFEE OR TEA

Turns out, both are good for you.

Here’s a fun way to find out which is better.