Posted on 09/17/2019 3:47:58 AM PDT by Libloather
The vegan diet is often lauded as the most environmentally friend way to eat, but scientists have highlighted that cutting down on animal products can also help to protect the planet against climate change.
A worldwide move towards plant-focused diets is "essential for meeting climate change mitigation targets," scientists wrote in the journal Global Environmental Change. But how this is achieved depends on the country.
The team, from Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, looked at the carbon and water footprints of nine plant-rich diets from 140 countries, and compared them with what is typically eaten. A total of 74 food items were considered.
What are known as ruminant meats—such as cattle, sheep, and goat—had "by far" the biggest greenhouse gas footprint, with 6.54 kg (14.4 pounds) of bovine meat some 316 times more greenhouse gas intensive than pulses. Plant foods were the least intensive, on average.
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There is a lot more actual non PC science in support of this than for any AGw and it comes just as we are reaching the point where we can actually remove much, maybe most, of the CO2 from the air which should exacerbate greatly the famine effects of a cooling northern hemisphere.
There is a lot more actual non PC science in support of this than for any AGw and it comes just as we are reaching the point where we can actually remove much, maybe most, of the CO2 from the air which should exacerbate greatly the famine effects of a cooling northern hemisphere.
I hate the planet! I’m going to rush out and consume oils, refined sugar, stimulants, and alcohol!
Liberal jack-asses want to regulate what you eat. Do not doubt this. “Hell yes, we’re coming for your cheeseburgers”, will be heard from some Democrat before long.
Where you going to get your water for your farms? How about the petroleum based fertilizer?
I bet that is the real aim of moving people to vegan/vegetarian diets, albeit not spoken.
I'm suspect of most if not all "policies" touted using the AGW/climate change banner.
“A worldwide move towards plant-focused diets is “essential for meeting climate change mitigation targets,” scientists wrote in the journal Global Environmental Change. But how this is achieved depends on the country.”
The left screams about Monsanto and now they will be forever dependent on them for food. Oh the irony.
Let the cows be vegans, then we’ll eat them.
I'm with you. Besides, vegetables give me colic.
They are working on the assumption that enough plant sustenance to feed the world will always be available year round as it is now. We are already consuming the supply to it’s limit every season as it is. There is a very good reason we started to eat meat in the first place or go extinct as a species. WINTER.
Well, you certainly seem to know a lot of vegans on a very personal level, and an awful lot about their various medical conditions. And it makes them liberal as well. LOL! Do they have any actually diagnosed medical issues or is this your expert medical opinion?
They tried to save the planet through renewable energy. Now they’re starting to freak out that the gas used to prevent wind turbines from catching fire is one of the worst green house gases on the planet, SF6 ... and it is leaking into the environment.
Climate change: Electrical industry’s ‘dirty secret’ boosts warming
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49567197
About a half a dozen. They’re all chubby.
My wife also said I needed to lose some weight. She said a doctor where she worked had lost 40 lbs. on the Atkins diet. So she bought me the book and I read it and started my new way of eating.
Within 4 months I had lost 42 lbs. I felt great. Who wouldn't when you get to eat steaks, hamburgers, chicken, and pork chops all the time? I loved it.
Eventually, I lost a total of 85 lbs. that year and continued on this new way of eating.
On my next annual visit, my doc looked at me and wondered if I was the same guy. He said I was the first patient who he had told to change their diet because of diabetes, who had actually followed through and lost weight.
All of my lab work was back within normal ranges. My cholesterol was 110. I felt 20 years younger.
And all I did was to ignore what the government approved food pyramid told me to eat. I turned the pyramid upside down and ate more meat, fats and simple carbs. I completely quit eating processed carbs. That's the secret.
We don't get fat from eating fat. We get fat from eating too many processed carbs and then not burning them all off with exercise and daily activities. Those carbs convert to glucose and that's what fueled my day. Whatever I didn't burn was stored as fat and I gained weight over the years.
Not eating processed carbs forces your body to look elsewhere for fuel and it starts burning your fat stores.
Not eating vegan has made me healthier, reduced my weight and made me feel like I was young again.
It's disturbing that this research team and the global environment loonies want us to eat more processed carbs to save the planet from climate change.
Political agendas are not good for your personal health. I'll continue to eat meat.
:)
When I was a child, I would sit at the table for hours because I couldn’t get up until I ate my veggies. I complied with all but the spinach. It made me literally gag. Later, at Camp I was forced to take a #nothankyou serving of spinach and I liked it! It turned out that it was Mother’s Hollandaise sauce I couldn’t swallow.
Thereafter, peace reigned at our house.
I’m now a Grandmother and I still hate the veggies. :)
The doc's talk motivated me far less than visiting my youngest daughter and grandsons in Japan the following month and she made some daughterly "suggestions" which were taken as orders.
Like you, lots of proteins, way less carbs. Not only is the weight down, the energy level is up. Lunch is usually a cole slaw salad, vinegar based dressing and some protein-- smoked oysters, sardines or sausage.
I'm off to the sawbones later this month and am hoping for similar reaction as yours.
Vegetarian diets not always the most climate-friendly,
http://news.trust.org/item/20190916233621-1b5yo
Ran across this quote from Aristophanes yesterday:
“Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.”
Ron White made it simpler: “You can’t fix stupid.”
Plants have feelings, too!!!!!!!!
Funny - I always thought a sentence using the conjunction "but" was supposed to have contrasting points fore and aft of the contraction. Such is the state of the English language, as butchered by the media these days.
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