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So to actually answer this, there is a specific study that claimed to find some correlation between ultraprocessed food and certain health risks. The study seems to have included a picture of a meat substitute burger, and have singled out some meat alternatives despite not researching them specifically, which in turn led to a bunch of press to poorly report negative health impacts from those even though the study wasn't really concluding that.
The rest of the article is mostly a political dance about anti-vegan policies present and future that goes into a lot of detail about categorizations of food and how the concept of processed food as a category is poorly defined, presumably because vegan food substitutes would fall under this more often. Honestly, it's a bit of a turducken of sensationalized reporting and research built around the current state of US politics. You can save yourself the read.