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Can Learning to Love Beans Help Save the Planet?

Can Learning to Love Beans Help Save the Planet?

Update: 2024-11-281
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In a nation filled with meat lovers, how can we persuade Americans to stop eating animals and help save the planet? The food writer Bee Wilson believes the answer lies with food preferences — specifically, changing them. “It is possible to learn to love new foods, and it’s something transformative and actually joyous,” she says. In this episode, she makes the case for changing your taste for beans, a humble legume that is packed with extraordinary flavor.

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Can Learning to Love Beans Help Save the Planet?

Can Learning to Love Beans Help Save the Planet?

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