- [Announcer] This week, popular food chain KFC
is trialing vegan chicken.
Del Taco launches vegan beef at all U.S. locations.
Filmmaker James Cameron thinks
vegan women will save the planet.
And find out how Academy Award-winning actor
Morgan Freeman is helping these important insects.
All that and more on LIVEKINDLY's weekly vegan news.
KFC announced it will trial vegan
and vegetarian chicken in the U.K. later this year.
The fast food chain's Innovation Director, Jack Hinchliffe,
cited veganism as a trend that has really blown up.
In response to growing consumer demand
for plant-based options, he revealed
that the vegan KFC chicken they are working on
will be really credible, authentic, and genuine.
- Alright, folks, now let's eat.
- [Announcer] Customers can expect more than a bean patty.
The new innovation is set to have
the same flavors and seasonings
as the chain's iconic chicken.
KFC first announced its intentions
to trial vegetarian chicken last May,
in a bid to offer consumers healthier options.
"We know people are more passionate
"than ever about eating well," said Victoria Robertson,
Head of Food Innovation for KFC UK.
"And we face a big challenge in shifting
"their perceptions of what we offer."
- It's finger-licking good.
- [Announcer] Coming up, award-winning director
James Cameron thinks vegan women will save the world.
Mexican fast food chain Del Taco
announced that it's bringing its vegan tacos,
made with Beyond Meat, to all 564 locations
after a successful trial.
The vegan beef crumbles are made from pea protein,
and they look, cook, and taste like beef.
Del Taco tested its Beyond Tacos
at five locations in southern California,
where they were well-received.
President and CEO John D. Cappasola
said in a quote, "The consumer opportunity
"is immense and exciting.
"There is no one else doing it in our category
"at the price point we plan to offer."
The vegan Beyond Avocado tacos
and its vegetarian counterpart with cheese
are expected to launch at all Del Taco locations
near the end of April.
Vegan women will save the world,
according to plant-based filmmaker
and environmentalist James Cameron.
In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour,
Cameron and his wife Suzy discussed
the current climate crisis
and the transformative power
of changing the way we eat.
Suzy Cameron is the author of 2018's One Meal a Day,
the simple, plant-based program
to save your health, save your waistline,
and save the planet.
- Eating one plant-based meal a day for a year
saves 200,000 gallons of water,
and the carbon equivalent of driving
from Los Angeles to New York.
So, even though most people get
completely paralyzed about, what can I do
as an individual to help the environment,
usually they just look the other way
and the think they can't do anything.
But you can!
- [Announcer] It's this kind of thinking,
according to James Cameron,
that means women will save the planet.
A new study has revealed
that eating three eggs a week
could increase the risk of early death.
The study, conducted at Northwestern University,
highlights the risk of consuming
an additional 300 milligrams or more
of cholesterol a day, or three or more eggs a week.
According to Victor Zhong, the study's lead author,
one large egg contains around 186 milligrams of cholesterol.
To determine the potential risk of eating egg,
Zhong and his team evaluated data
from more than 29,000 people.
Over the course of 17 and a half years,
5,400 cardiovascular events,
including 1,302 strokes,
1,897 incidents of heart failure,
and 113 other deaths related to heart disease,
occurred among participants.
People who ate two or more eggs a day
had the highest risk of developing heart disease
or experiencing an early death.
Dr. Norrina Allen, a researcher
who worked on the study, told The Independent,
"We want to remind people there is cholesterol in eggs,
"specifically yolks, and this has a harmful effect."
Coming up, find out how Morgan Freeman
is protecting the bee population.
Grammy Award-winning producer,
Hall of Fame songwriter, recording artist, and TV star
Jermaine Dupri has been vegan for over a decade.
The star went vegan after a 25-day cleanse,
in which he discovered a wealth of energy.
With 12 years of veganism under his belt,
Dupri has appeared in a PETA campaign
promoting the lifestyle.
- Anybody that has a problem
with their energy level being right,
tired all the time, you can definitely feel the difference.
Vegan lifestyle puts you on that track
to get you to be healthy.
That's the lifestyle that you have to take on.
- [Announcer] He also recently became co-owner
of Atlanta-based vegan lemonade brand Slush Naturals.
- Hundred percent natural and organic ingredients.
Non-GMO, we going heavy at Whole Foods.
- [Announcer] A lot of products contain sugar,
processed with bone char, but Slush Naturals'
Healthy Lemonade is sweetened without the use
of animal products.
Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman
has converted his 120-acre Mississippi ranch
into a bee sanctuary to combat
the insect's dwindling population.
- I can honestly say that I'm a changed man.
- [Announcer] The 81-year-old actor revealed
in a 2014 interview on The Tonight Show
starring Jimmy Fallon, that he took up beekeeping
in response to mysterious massive die-offs,
known as colony collapse disorder.
This occurs when the majority of worker bees
suddenly disappear and leave behind
a queen, food, and nurse bees,
according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Freeman imported 26 hives from Arkansas to his ranch,
where the insects have access
to flowering plants and sugar water.
The star says he has never needed to use
the beekeeping hat with his bees.
- And what I've discovered is,
that I don't have to put on the bee suit
or anything to feed them.
- [Jimmy] That's wrong.
- [Announcer] "They haven't stung me yet.
"As of right now, I am not trying
"to harvest honey or anything, but I just feed them.
"I also think that they understand,
"hey, don't bother this guy, he's got sugar water, here."
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