Posted on 04/25/2022 4:21:57 PM PDT by Trillian
Swapping animal products for future foods such as insect protein or cultured milk could reduce global warming, water and land use by over 80 per cent, a new study suggests.
Researchers used computer modelling to find the optimal diet combination to meet nutritional needs, while also minimising global warming potential, water and land use.
They found that if people in Europe replaced meat and dairy with foods produced through new technologies, such as making fake steak out of bovine cells, it could significantly reduce all environmental impacts.
Not only that, but it would be nutritionally adequate and meet the constraints for what can be feasibly consumed, according to experts at the University of Helsinki.
They said that alternative diets such as vegetarian, vegan or flexitarian, had demonstrated the health and environmental benefits of shifting towards lower meat consumption.
But novel or future foods (NFFs) — including cultured milk, insect meal or mycoprotein — can contain a more complete array of essential nutrients compared to currently available plant-based protein-rich (PBPR) options like legumes, pulses and grains, according to the researchers.
They said NFFs also tend to be more land and water-efficient than existing animal-sourced products.
Cultured milk is where it has been fermented with lactic acid bacteria such as Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, and Leuconostoc.
This increases the shelf life of the product, while also enhancing its taste and improving digestibility.
'Global food systems face the challenge of providing healthy and adequate nutrition through sustainable means, which is exacerbated by climate change and increasing protein demand by the world's growing population,' the researchers, led by lead author Rachel Mazac, wrote in their paper.
'Recent advances in novel food production technologies demonstrate potential solutions for improving the sustainability of food systems.
'We estimate the possible reductions in global warming potential, water use and land
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Daily Fail is a useless rag, and a favorite Zelenssky sucklers.
They sift through crap like this and Kardashian wardrobe fails to find fake news “war crimes.”
Burger toppings…
They want to control everything from Birth until they day they decide you will Die
And you won’t get COVID if you get the vaccine ... and booster #1 ... and booster #2 ... and booster #3, except that when you do get COVID it won’t be as severe maybe.
You know: follow the science.
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Now, they want ya to eat insects.
If you close your eyes and imagine real hard, they probably taste a lot like chicken and beef steak and BACON!!!!!!!
Well...some left winged dork set himself on fire at the Supreme Court the other day (and died of course) so predicting that the sheeple will eat bugs is not a stretch. They’re insane..
I wished someone would submit legislation to ban homes over 3000 sqft, private jets and yachts. Let’s seek how much they think GW is real then. Right now, they have no skin in the game. Force their hand.
These ugly experiments tend to be targeted at people of European heritage.
“God has placed animals and plants on this planet for a reason....FOOD.”
And when WE’RE dead, the animals and the bugs can eat us. And the cycle continues. There is a certain beauty in that.
Bad idea unless you want microapartment slums to be built by you.
Y.E.S.
Hey Mikey, the fool likes it!
Someone posted an article here a few days ago that said people are eating more meat now. No one wants the fake stuff they keep trying to push on us.
Exactly!
Have Al Gore serve it at a dinner party in his 15,000 Sqft. House to his jet setting friends. It may go well with the duck sauce.
I’ve got something else these suckers can eat. And then die.
They keep this up and cannibalism will make a comeback.
Once I see Bill Gates, the Obamas, the Clintons, John Kerry, and Gavin Newsome all living on insects, I might give them a try (just as a novelty), but that’s not what they are talking about. Those people will dine on prime beef, while us “little people” are required to eat bugs and drink fake milk. No thanks!
Oh great. Now we gonna eat like hindus
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