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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It’s the circle,
The circle of life.😏
The thesis that bugs can replace cattle for protein is, of course, stupid. To achieve comparable volume the quantity of food required by the insects remains the same. Waste is not changed. Insect pollution will be comparable to cattle flatulation. Infrastructure will be comparable. In fact, nothing significant changes except the taste.
Oh, but think of the delicacy of every 17 years getting to feast on those cicadas by the bowlful!
I’m all for global warming.
Longer growing seasons, lower heating bills, easier on cars and roads, less maintenance, …..
Meteorologically they are called climate optimums for a reason. Life flourishes during them.
You can’t grow crops in the snow.
Joe Bastardi also points out that the great, effects of warmer temperatures show up at the poles, not the tropics, which makes perfect sense.
There you go, making sense.
It’s clear that you’re not a leftist. You actually thought this through.
greatest effects…..
If my travels through some of our own rural areas along with those in Portugal, Spain and the former Yugoslavia are any indication, we are having a problem with rural depopulation. From Northern Maine to Northern Spain, more people are needed. Even here in Puerto Rico the rural areas are imploding and there is a real demographic winter.
Where can I get a Molon Labe flag with a NY strip steak on it?
You make an excellent point regarding the liberal hypocrites with their McMansions, second & third homes and $120K vehicles.
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