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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Soylent Green, baby, Soylent Green!
Beef.
It’s what’s for dinner.
I’m pretty sure that’s not what I meant :P
MEAT doesn’t cause obesity. CARBS + INACTIVITY does.
I just finished a delicious sliced egg with olive oil mayo, pink salt and fresh ground pepper on a baguette. It was good too!
Lol... I was thinking the same thing. Humans are meant to eat meat and will, absolutely nothing will keep them from it. They may want to rethink this.
Elitists are hypocrites, so I’m sure filet mignon is on the menu in Davos this week.
Eat Mo Chicken!
Yep, nothing.
Limit my menu, and I’ll make my own menu.
And they will not like it at all.
They obviously have not studied their history. lol
I will be having a rib eye steak later tonight.
But how are we going to get rid of them in the next 12 years?
Mass executions? Firing squads? Nuclear blasts? Jonestown grape Kool Aid?
Oh, I know. Let's ask A. O-C. She'll know the answer. She knows everything.
She was a bartender, ya' know. And a dancer....of sorts. Ya' know....
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My wife and I raise Angus beef cattle. But people still ask me occasionally if I'm a vegetarian.
You know that stare that says, "Are you really that stupid?" ?
this is what we will have to eat.
Its “healthy, sustainable reference diet” would involve a complete restructuring of the average Irish person’s diet with beef and lamb consumption reduced by 90 per cent to just 7g a day, which is equivalent to roughly half a meatball.
People would also be limited to 7g of pork a day, equivalent to a single cocktail sausage, and just 29g of chicken or one and a half chicken nuggets.
Dairy consumption would also be curtailed to just one glass of milk a day (250ml) or less if you consume cheese or butter.
To get the required daily intake of calories, people would be expected to eat almost 18 times as much dry beans, soy and nuts.
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