Plant-Based Meat Cuts Environmental Impact by 89%, Study Finds
Plant-Based Meat Cuts Environmental Impact by 89%, Study Finds
A life cycle assessment of plant-based meat finds meat-free alternatives have an 89 percent lower environmental impact than animal proteins
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Basically perfectly lines up with the “10% energy” rule from high school bio
Good, now make it affordable.
Plant-based meat is not required for a plant based diet. Personally, if I'm going plant-based, I'm going to avoid processed food. Let me reiterate, it's my preference.
Then why is it like $8 a lb?
...why do you think environmental impact correlates to price in any way?
Because it's relatively new and not subsidized like animal slaughter.
Economy of scales
Overall, plant-based meat uses 79 percent less land, 95 percent less water, and produces 93 percent water pollution. Efficient, low-impact meat alternatives also produce 89 percent fewer greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and 89 percent less air pollution.
Uhh
Overall, plant-based meat...produces 93 percent water pollution
Wut
No offense but let's just skip processed garbage and just learn how to cook and eat healthy, taste full, food.
I don't care about the arguments on how it is easier to aid people stop eating meat or whatnot. It's just over processed junk food nobody should be eating.
this is not about junk food or eating healthy. it's about environmental impact. your home cooked meat is still not environmentally friendly.
on the other hand, plant based nuggets are delicious!!
I've had 6 different kinds and have gotten wildly I'll every single time. Idk what the fuck they're putting in the nuggets, but it's bad shit.
Processed does not mean bad. A carrot smoothie is processed.
We can say you are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct, but it is not in that sense I mean processed.
I don't intend to see people eat all their food raw (although some do go that route; my respect, more power to them) and cooking tends to make things more digestible.
But industrially processed foods are not healthy. Yes, exceptions exist, like frozen vegetables (and even then, some companies add preservatives to it) but those are exceptions, not norms.
How will that advice have any effect on the environment? That's what this article is about.
No offense, but this fucking bullshit about us solving the climate crisis through small personal action while massive polluters continue INCREASING THEIR CO2 OUTPUT and fucking sucking up all available freshwater while they keep fucking telling us to change our meals is fucking absurd.
None taken.
Purity tests just make adoption of positive change slower.
LOL your comment goes against the data right in front of you. You see that meat is the problem, and that processed plant based alternatives are not. Yet you decide to say the exact opposite.
We should be cooking more natural and less processed though, I agree. But implying processed plant based junk food is worse than non processed meat is completely incorrect.
If I misunderstood your argument, excuse me.
In what part of my comment have I advocated for meat consumption?
What I'm trying to convey, with obvious very little success, is that processed foods should not be option for any diet and even less if a person is moving towards or on a meat exempt one.
Processed foods have been demonstrated, ad nauseam, to not be a good option for anything, due to the amount of additives being put into it.
I like the idea of plant based meat.
The issues it has are
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Cost
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Processing
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Market
The first problem is solved with more companies making more meat and competition so we can ignore that as it's inevitable to come down.
Processing though is hard to ignore. 1 pound of ground beef is MORE HEALTHY for you than 1 pound of impossible burger. Just looking at fats and sodiums.
The final problem is market! Who is this for? Do you really think that something marketed as "just like meat in every way" has an appeal to a vegetarian or vegan that has been with their diet for 2+ years?? So meat eaters, are expected to make the LESS healthy and more expensive choice
As far as market goes there are plenty of people who want to become more vegan but just can't completely kick meat. This is for them. You also have people like a friend of mine that have meat alergies but still miss being able to eat meat. All in all more oprions is never a bad thing.
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