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https://www.dw.com/en/pass-the-beans-hold-the-beef-to-save-yourself-and-the-planet/a-47113584The diet would see adults limited to 14 grams of red meat a day (about 30 calories — a quarter-pound burger patty contains roughly 450 calories), no more than 29 grams of poultry (around one and a half chicken nuggets) and 13 grams of eggs, or just 1.5 eggs per week.
The diet is the result of a three-year project commissioned by The Lancet and involving 37 specialists from 16 countries.
"We are in a catastrophic situation," said co-author Tim Lang, a professor at the University of London and policy lead for the EAT-Lancet Commission that compiled the study.
Lang said feeding a growing population of 10 billion people by 2050 with a healthy, sustainable diet will be impossible without transforming eating habits, improving food production and reducing food waste.
"We need a significant overhaul, changing the global food system on a scale not seen before," Lang said.
Read it and weep:
https://www.dw.com/en/pass-the-beans-hold-the-beef-to-save-yourself-and-the-planet/a-47113584
UTOPIA is going to suck ass man....
For the past two years you have been advocating for utopia, be consistent man.
I used to work in food safety. Unless we can drastically increase yield / engineer crops that can grow in currently non-fertile land, we'll be in trouble eventually if the current population growth estimates are correct. Luckily, scientific advancements continue despite the anti-GMO screamers. As for meat, someone else can have mine. I will take my egg ration, though. Also, our current estimates don't include plague or a stupid war as potential population controls. Considering that antibiotic development is almost at full stop in favor of boner pills and that humans can't get enough of preventable war against some "other" over resources / imaginary borders, it's just as likely that these will act as population controls before the food runs out.
At the rate these Yearning For Utopia freaks are going they will have us on insect cakes eventually....Keep that in mind.
Read it and weep:
https://www.dw.com/en/pass-the-beans-hold-the-beef-to-save-yourself-and-the-planet/a-47113584
UTOPIA is going to suck ass man....
I can live without meat. When they decide I can't have my truck, we'll have some serious problems.
Read it and weep:
https://www.dw.com/en/pass-the-beans-hold-the-beef-to-save-yourself-and-the-planet/a-47113584
UTOPIA is going to suck ass man....
Wake Up Man, it is not just about the meat, it is that and everything else that you need to give up if you are going to be considered a good citizen........ and maybe we will have a Citizenship Score like the Chinese where the worse the score the less we get.....in China those with low scores will get denied the ability to get jobs and loans and passports.
Allows me? Who is going to stop me?
At the rate these Yearning For Utopia freaks are going they will have us on insect cakes eventually....Keep that in mind.
Wake Up Man, it is not just about the meat, it is that and everything else that you need to give up if you are going to be considered a good citizen........ and maybe we will have a Citizenship Score like the Chinese where the worse the score the less we get.....in China those with low scores will get denied the ability to get jobs and loans and passports.
I used to work in food safety. Unless we can drastically increase yield / engineer crops that can grow in currently non-fertile land, we'll be in trouble eventually if the current population growth estimates are correct. Luckily, scientific advancements continue despite the anti-GMO screamers. As for meat, someone else can have mine. I will take my egg ration, though. Also, our current estimates don't include plague or a stupid war as potential population controls. Considering that antibiotic development is almost at full stop in favor of boner pills and that humans can't get enough of preventable war against some "other" over resources / imaginary borders, it's just as likely that these will act as population controls before the food runs out.
You should try the Impossible Burger, it is pretty amazing, and they have a new version coming out that people say tastes exactly like beef.
I've had the 1.0 version, and it was pretty amazing, can't wait for 2.0. I haven't eaten beef or pork in 30 years, I don't miss it.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidebanis/2019/01/11/the-new-impossible-burger-2-0-won-everyones-mouth-at-ces-2019-but-thats-just-the-beginning/#6d1f52727c49
Livestock takes up nearly 80% of global agricultural land, yet produces less than 20% of the world's supply of calories. If everyone had the same diet as for example Japan the global land use would be less than the 50 percent of the habitual land and also less than land used today for agriculture. While if you instead have the diet of Spain it would be less than all habitual land. While if everyone in the world had the same diet as for example US the land use would be more than all the habitual land in the world.
https://ourworldindata.org/agricultural-land-by-global-diets
Also why you get results like in the OP is because that especially many developed have for a long time have a very unsuitable and unhealthy food industry. It would also have been much easier and cheaper to avoid most devastating consequences of global warming if decisive action had been taken during the 90’s.
At the rate these Yearning For Utopia freaks are going they will have us on insect cakes eventually....Keep that in mind.
The thing is that most omnivores aren't going to abandon or seriously cut babk on meat consumption. I have, but I'm in the minority.
I think a big part of the change is more delcius options. That here in Sweden vegan and vegetarian alternatives are getting more common so you have more and more great choices. There for example MAX I mentioned have this vegan/vegatarian menu.
https://www.max.se/sv/Maten/Meny/Green/
While you also have a lot more option in Supermarkets. That you can for example by formable vegan meet like this one from Denmark that is sold all over Europe.
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Naturli' Minced – 100% Plant Based
You also have realy great traditional vegetarian/vegan dishes from many cultures around the world like India.
"Insect cakes" are delicious!
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/82347/best-ever-crab-cakes/
I don't think we are going to see this kind of extremist diet being adopted until there's absolutely no other choice...at which point we'll only have ourselves to blame for letting it get that far. Here's hoping we get the tech in place to avoid this in time...
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