Posted on 01/22/2019 10:53:28 AM PST by Olog-hai
Meat consumption in western countries such as Ireland may need to drop by 90 percent to avert a climate catastrophe and reverse the current obesity epidemic, a new study has warned.
The research by 20 influential food scientists, published in the Lancet Medical Journal, suggests the global food system is unsustainable and driving the planet towards environmental destruction while simultaneously leaving billions of people either underfed or overweight. […]
To get the required daily intake of calories, people would be expected to eat almost 18 times as much dry beans, soy and nuts. …
To promote the shift to a healthier diet based on a more sustainable food system, the study by the Eat-Lancet Commission, a collaboration of the Oslo-based Eat foundation and the Lancet Medical Journal, proposes a raft of measures including the introduction of a meat tax akin to the sugar tax and the withdrawal of certain products altogether. …
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It just gets crazier as we go...
They waste electricity and trees publishing fraudulent hysteria.
Wonder what’s on the menu at Davos....?
Marxism is why the West can’t have nice things.
More fakenews BS.
Typical Soy Boys wanting all men to eat estrogen promoting soy to add to their ranks.
The obesity epidemic is caused by sugars and high carb starches like french fries, not meat. I am a high meat/low-carb diet, and have lost five pounds in the first week.
Billions of people are underfed or overweight.
So we must panic?
If the Left had their way over two billion would die suddenly.
Of course technology companies like Impossible foods are trying to make a decent meat substitute, but I believe the concept of freedom should prevail. That means we get to decide what to consume, and the market gets to decide how much it costs.
A tax? Well, consider the whole world and figure out how to do it? I personally think this will not go down well.
Whadda-u-know . . . their solution involves another onerous tax . . . whooda thunk it. . . . /sarc
To get the required daily intake of calories, people would be expected to eat almost 18 times as much dry beans, soy and nuts. .......................................................
They think that stuff just comes from the stores just like electricity comes from the wall socket.
These conferences at the Hague don’t serve meals of rice cakes and a slice of apple.
What are we gonna do with all these fricken COWS if everyone stops eating them. They will fart and fart and the greenhouse gasses will buildup until the planet incinerates itself.
Dont these people listen to themselves when they spew?
I will supplement my daily protein intake with vegans.
All of those farts would kill the planet if we are to believe that cow farts are the current problem.
Prime rib for me tonight (it wasn’t on the plan, but I always celebrate when petty tyrants attempt to tell me what choices I am permitted to make).
Oh great. Then we’ll have even more cows farting polluting the air.
Scientist doesn’t mean what it used to mean.
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