Posted on 09/17/2019 3:47:58 AM PDT by Libloather
The vegan diet is often lauded as the most environmentally friend way to eat, but scientists have highlighted that cutting down on animal products can also help to protect the planet against climate change.
A worldwide move towards plant-focused diets is "essential for meeting climate change mitigation targets," scientists wrote in the journal Global Environmental Change. But how this is achieved depends on the country.
The team, from Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, looked at the carbon and water footprints of nine plant-rich diets from 140 countries, and compared them with what is typically eaten. A total of 74 food items were considered.
What are known as ruminant meats—such as cattle, sheep, and goat—had "by far" the biggest greenhouse gas footprint, with 6.54 kg (14.4 pounds) of bovine meat some 316 times more greenhouse gas intensive than pulses. Plant foods were the least intensive, on average.
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No beer? That shouldn't tick off too many folks.
This is daft.
I raise beef cattle on my farm.
Screw the UN. I'll eat beef.
Not true.
Save the plant through dieting. Time for Hank Johnson to suggest that the earth’s rotation is off because of obese Americans.
I wonder what the scientific background of the “research” team is. Very little information is given here, but the little provided tells me that they overlooked quite a few pertinent facts in this “study.”
Two of the omitted considerations are that 1) cows, sheep, beans, tomatoes—every food we eat—is made out of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Therefore, it is impossible for any food item to cause an increase of CO2 in the atmosphere; and 2) that animals eat plants and plant parts that are inedible to humans, and therefore make land use more efficient by decreasing plant waste.
Widespread vegetarianism and veganism would both necessitate turning vast amounts of land to agricultural use, which would decrease habitats for wildlife. Although wildlife might decrease, too, as desperate people turn to eating wildlife when animal products are no longer allowed to be sold. And I hate to think of the medical issues, along with the aggressiveness and loss of mental resilience that result from plant-based diets.
Eating left-wingers is the best diet to save the planet. I had my share from Smith and Barnard, but the Randolph Bacon one was the best.
I hate veggies. I eat them becaue I have to...a small serving subsidized by expensive liquid vitamins. They work great. Carnivores, unite!
This is all dependent on the belief that “greenhouse gases” are bad.
But they aren’t.
Comforting to know we have TOP MEN (or Women) working on this....
I’m with Ron White
Only 11.36 years left?
EAT DESSERT FIRST!!!!!
Follow up with all your favorites. Enjoy what time you have left.
But I thought we were supposed to be eating bugs and other poeple. I wish “researchers” would make up their minds.
How many do you know?
...with 6.54 kg (14.4 pounds) of bovine meat some 316 times more greenhouse gas intensive than pulses.
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Newsweek has reached a pathetic state their sentences are now incoherent random combinations of catch phrases.
Why reference a certain odd amount of meat as 316 greater than what, exactly? “Pulses”?
I’ll becine a Vegan under threat. They’d have to steal my guns first.
They eat too many carbs IMO. As many of us do, I was diagnosed with high cholesterol around 50. I began eating vegetarian. I did include some dairy, so not technically vegan. After a year, my lipid profile and my blood sugar were worse. I now had high cholesterol, high LDL and was pre-diabetic. After some research, I decided to cut carbs and add lean meat and eggs back into my diet. I lost weight and my lipid profile is now fabulous. Total cholesterol just over 100. For me, there is a definite link between carbs and metabolic issues. There appears to be no link for me between dietary fat and metabolic issues.
All the vegans I know look like death camp survivors, spend half their life in the bathroom and are continually tired. They are also extremely liberal, whiny and judgmental. The women, mostly in the late thirties and early forties, already have signs of osteoporosis, i.e., dowagers hump.
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