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We are in a boom time for plant-based “meats,” and multiple companies, including the likes of both Beyond Meat and IKEA, are making these types of animal-free proteins increasingly accessible. This is, of course, bad news for the meat industry, which has previously slammed plant-based meats, suggesting that they are both unnatural and will result in “forced vegetarianism.” So where does it leave both the meat industry and consumers when a company starts making meat in a lab instead of butchering an actual living animal? As written about by Forbes, the company Mission Barns is doing exactly that. Mission Barns’...

Those who love rib-eye steaks and double-cream Brie will feel better about their guilty pleasures after reading Nina Teicholz’s article in this weekend’s Wall Street Journal, “The Questionable Link Between Saturated Fat and Heart Disease.” She writes, for example: Too much whole-grain oatmeal for breakfast and whole-grain pasta for dinner, with fruit snacks in between, add up to a less healthy diet than one of eggs and bacon, followed by fish. Gary Taubes covered some of the same ground in his excellent 2008 book, Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health. Taubes argued...