Posted on 01/17/2019 11:58:48 AM PST by shove_it
The landmark health study in The Lancet calls on people to double their consumption of vegetables, fruits and nuts
... "To have any chance of feeding 10 billion people in 2050 within planetary boundaries" -- the limits on Earth's capacity to absorb human activity -- "we must adopt a healthy diet, slash food waste, and invest in technologies that reduce environmental impacts," said co-author Johan Rockstrom, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Change Impact Research.
- Where's the beef? -
"It is doable but it will take nothing less than global agricultural revolution," he told AFP.
The cornerstone of "the great food transformation" called for in the study is a template human diet of about 2500 calories per day.
"We are not saying everyone has to eat in the same way," Lang said by phone. "But broadly -- especially in the rich world -- it means a reduction of meat and dairy, and a major increase in plant consumption."
The diet allows for about seven grammes (a quarter of an ounce) of red meat per day, and up to 14. A typical hamburger patty, by comparison, is 125 to 150 grammes.
For most rich nations, and many emerging ones such as China and Brazil, this would represent a drastic five-to-ten-fold reduction.
Beef is the main culprit...
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
I’m doing my very best to help with the over supply of pigs, one bratwurst at a time. (With kraut from those equally evil cabbages.)
If EVERYONE quit eating, the problem would resolve itself in a month or so.
Maybe their new rallying cry? “ Malthus lives!”
Sounds series.
Seems like we’re going to need a board of global food czars to manage a project of this importance & magnitude.
Not this Malthusian crap again. How many times does this “overpopulation” nonsense have to be debunked?
About the weight of two sugar cubes of meat per day. Why even eat any? It’s a diet fit for an antelope.
Yeah.
NO.
The timing is funny. Why didn’t they just blame Trump in the headline for setting a bad example with his McDonald’s bruhaha?
More bullshit from the one square sheet of toilet paper crowd.
Before this is over...Progressives will have all of us eating Tofu! Biblically speaking, it’s called, “ Going the way of Cain.”
Well with this diet one square is more than you would need in a day!
Eating Micky D’s today and “Lovin It!”
Same thing happened once we found out dinosaurs tasted like chicken.
> said co-author Johan Rockstrom, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Change Impact Research <
Say no more, pal. We’ve got your number.
dear starving people of the world - eat nuts. Never mind you might be allergic to them if not exposed at an early age. Just eat the darn things. /s
Where does this study imagine that all that water to grow veggies to provide 1800 calories a day will come from? (an entire tomato having a paltry 60 calories in reward for 3 months of water and human labor) And where does this study imagine that protein and essential amino acids will come from - the building blocks required for advanced brain development?
‘Well with this diet one square is more than you would need in a day!’
actually this diet would be high in vegetative fiber, which would keep you quite regular...so the usage of toilet paper would increase, thus annoying somebody somewhere...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.