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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I wonder if those brilliant researchers stopped to think of where milk comes from.
God has placed animals and plants on this planet for a reason....FOOD.
Extracting protein from sewage could feed 95% of the politicians in the world. It could be marketed as “Toilet Tofu”.
Next step is Soylent Green.
wy69
I just bought a new BBQ…insects will fall through the grates- getting burned at every turn lately.
Not happening, Scooter.
No
Only if they are kosher, halal, vegan, non-gmo, organic free range bugs.
ya these people are crazy , they want to eat insects go right ahead and leave us alone
Getting rid of 100 million leftists might help too.
Just a theory like manmade gorebal warming. Maybe we should try that first to see if it works
The Elites will eat Kobe beef, while you lick your windshield.
Klaus Schwab is not going to make to 2030 , he’s like 83 now
It would take a massive number of insects to ‘sustain’ one individual — daily.
What quantity of insects would it take to sustain 7 billion people, plus all of the other creatures that consume insects?
Yeah and they can put all the other crap like vaxxes we dont want in there too.
bugs are yummy
Ya the Elites will have special supermarkets like in the USSR for the big wigs
OR ELSE!
What's the carbon footprint of the purified nutrients needed to culture the bovine cells? Of the sterilization needed to do cell culture?
so they now ban bug bits and these idiots want bug bit mandatory ,LOL
You'd have to farm them.
Which would require an industry.
Which would require a lot of water and fossil fuels.
Back to square one!
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