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[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What are the dietary reasons?

It tastes too good

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Possibly iron. There's heme and non-heme forms of iron and some people are just physically incapable of using non-heme (plant based) iron. It's uncommon but definitely a thing.

[–] BonfireOvDreams@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If for some reason he medically required heme-iron, I'd rather publicly subsidize the price difference for them to eat impossible meat as that does contain heme-iron. No more requirement to rely on animal products for that. As far as I'm aware though, it's just a concern of absorption rate. If the absorption rate is the concern they should just focus on taking a higher dosage supplement - which would not require heme-iron.