eat your peas
Posted on 12/17/2024 5:54:49 AM PST by Red Badger
“Plant-based diets are in a tough moment,” says Dr Marco Springmann. “Ten years ago there was a lot of excitement about them. But I think during the cost of living crisis many of the start-up companies struggled, because of their high prices.
“Recently it has been framed as a culture issue, associated with wokeness, which is a shame,” he adds. “I try to believe that we are all concerned about preserving our environment and reducing diet-related diseases and stuff. I would hope that people don’t perceive it as a cultural issue. But it is having a tough moment.”
As senior researcher at the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute, Springmann is tackling one of the most contentious food issues of our time: what alternatives should we embrace to replace meat and dairy sustainably and healthily?
His latest research, a comprehensive study of 24 milk and meat alternatives, found that legumes, such as peas, were a better alternative on cost, emissions and health, than veggie burgers and other highly processed vegetarian and vegan options, although they were better than meat and animal milk.
“Unprocessed legumes such as peas and beans were the clear winner in our assessment,” he says. “They performed well from all perspectives, including nutritional, health, environmental and cost.” Worst of all were the much-vaunted lab-grown meats. His study found that at current costs they were 40,000 per cent more expensive than real meat, with similar emissions and probably similar health impacts.
“The easy takeaway is to go for unprocessed plant-based foods wherever possible,” he continues. “All of the beans did very well. Processed plant-based alternatives did fairly well, just not as well, although they’re still much better than meat and milk. But one of the big downfalls of processed plant-based alternatives is that they are very expensive.
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What?.....no segue into eating zee bugz????
Bible (1st Corinthians 10:25-26): Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, 26 for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”
no one will ever convince me that plants are less destructive to the environment than cattle.
In order to grow anything commercially you have to clear cut 10’s of thousands of acres and then plough the ground down about 2 feet killing every living thing there in the process then you plant one particular crop and then spray it with chemicals to kill any living thing that might want to eat it and then every once in a while you harvest all of it and start over.
Someone explain to me how that is somehow better for the environment than cattle munching on grass in a natural field and forest area surrounded by all the plants and animals common in the area?
Nothing provides the essential minerals and overall health benefits as beef. NOTHING.
“Recently it has been framed as a culture issue, associated with wokeness, which is a shame,”
Does anyone besides virtue signaling white dudes eat this stuff? I can’t see a church barbecue in the hood cooking up fake ribs. I can’t see the local bodega using this in breakfast tacos.
OR, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. The hypocrisy is astonishing. They have done everything they can to poison the food supply. Then they want to force people to eat even more unhealthy food cuz Mother Earth. They have zero credibility. Lets go back to the diet of the 50’s
This is a perfect example of "begging the question". Let's first address the real matter: Is eating real meat unhealthy? Is replacing meat with anything necessary or even desirable? The dirty dishonest disreputable disgusting dastardly d-bag is trying to fool us.
At the height of covidiocy, meat was scarce in my local groceries' refrigerator cases. There was the usual amount of "beyond" fake meat ... nobody wanted that crap.
the morons dont think that much... they see their veggies at the supermarket and thats as far as it goes.
eat your peas
...I can’t see a church barbecue in the hood cooking up fake ribs....
McDonald’s...........................
40,000 percent more expensive? Uh huh.
Give peas a chance.....................
I have yet to ever try those. For what it’s worth, though, at least some pig finds its way into the recipe.
I can haz impossible burger?
-said no cat ever
The HUGE FEAR of RFK is not vaccines as I suspect that even the vaccine proponents agree that they’ve gone way too far (72 shots in the first 2 years of a kid’s life, really!).
The HUGE FEAR is that RFK will blow the cover off of the nutrition scam and flip the Food Pyramid upside down, with Red Meat FINALLY being identified as the healthiest food and carbs being the food almost certain to get you sick (meaning overweight, obese, diabetic, etc.). All their brainwashing of the past 60 years will be DESTROYED, and practically overnight.
😁..........................
https://www.amazon.com/Insects-Special-Waterbugs-Beetles-Crickets/dp/B0927H3QR4
They actually do taste good...............
Yep!
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