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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Should You go Vegetarian?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6957 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

With an eye on World Vegetarian Day we're looking at the feasibility of a reduced meat diet: What can cutting down calories from meat do for our health, and the health of the planet? Plus, in the news, a new 20 minute test for COVID, why hybrid cars turn out to be worse for the environment than their official performance figures claim, and after hundreds of elephants mysteriously died in Botswana, researchers now think they know why... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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Hello.

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Welcome.

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And that is the say, physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, a brain, life, the universe.

0:49.0

Hello, welcome to the naked scientists, the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in science, technology and medicine.

0:55.0

With me Adam Murphy...

0:57.0

And with me, Chris Smith, coming up a new 20 minute test for COVID, why hybrid cars turn out to be worse for the environment than their

1:04.1

official performance figures claim and after hundreds of elephants mysteriously

1:08.7

died in Botswana earlier this year researchers now think they know why.

1:13.7

And also this week, with an eye on World Vegetarian Day, we're looking at the feasibility

1:17.7

of a reduced meat diet.

1:19.6

What can cutting down calories from meat do for our health and the health of the planet.

1:24.4

The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. Recently Boris Johnson announced an ambitious plan which he dubbed his

1:39.7

moonshot to test our way out of the current COVID crisis and back to normality. But the price tag

1:47.2

of this proposed multi-million scale daily testing regime is nearly as much in itself as the cost of running the entire

1:54.2

national health service. Unsurprisingly, many are skeptical, not least because some of

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