Posted on 04/27/2021 10:18:54 AM PDT by rktman
For any person — or publication — wanting to envision a more sustainable way to cook, cutting out beef is a worthwhile first step. Almost 15 percent of greenhouse gas emissions globally come from livestock (and everything involved in raising it); 61 percent of those emissions can be traced back to beef. Cows are 20 times less efficient to raise than beans and roughly three times less efficient than poultry and pork. It might not feel like much, but cutting out just a single ingredient — beef — can have an outsize impact on making a person's cooking more environmentally friendly.
Today Epicurious announces that we've done just that: We've cut out beef. Beef won't appear in new Epicurious recipes, articles, or newsletters. It will not show up on our homepage. It will be absent from our Instagram feed.
We know that some people might assume that this decision signals some sort of vendetta against cows — or the people who eat them. But this decision was not made because we hate hamburgers (we don't!). Instead, our shift is solely about sustainability, about not giving airtime to one of the world's worst climate offenders. We think of this decision as not anti-beef but rather pro-planet. [No, it's about cows —ed.]
Of course, when it comes to the planet, eschewing beef is not a silver bullet. All ruminant animals (like sheep and goats) have significant environmental costs, and there are problems with chicken, seafood, soy, and almost every other ingredient. In a food system so broken, almost no choice is perfect.
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Beef is the new ammo. Ammo was the new toilet paper.
Good video. I’ll be conducting a few beef experiments with either sparkling water or pineapple juice.
insects are yummy to follow
All ruminant animals (like sheep and goats) have significant environmental costs
But Ted Turner also owns a lot of land and he raises Bison.
I would call that a “Value Add” salad. The cow took green plants and made them into something better.
“Your great grandmother came to dinner last night. Best beef steak I’ve had in a long time”.
One of my insults for Indian call center scammers.
I’ll open a “Beefeasy” and make a fortune!!!
Cows will become extinct. I thought greenies were against animal extinction.
Not a comment about beef, but about all those out to save the world.
A few years back, I read that a village in Bolivia had been heralded as a model of sustainability. Accompanying the article was a photo of one the villagers, a young boy, wearing dirty rags (and not too clean-looking himself), standing in front of a thatch-roofed mud hut.
He sold a lot and doesn’t have the herd he used to.
A lot of California vineyards are irrigated. Not sure how much water they use, but no doubt it’s a huge amount.
I am throwing out this anecdotal stuff to boil down the real intentions of these environweenies. For them, it is not about pacifying the Mother Earth Goddess. It is the antihuman effort to eliminate humans in their Utopian illusion of population control for a perfect world. For all of us, the bad part of this is how do we scrape these pieces of garbage off the bottom of our shoes?
The tool:
I suspect most chefs will still remember how to cook with beef without Epicurious’s help.
And no more than 3 eggs a week.
Phooey on that. I ate six eggs yesterday (3 scrambled for breakfast, 3 deviled later on). They're a cheap source of protein and my cholesterol is fine.
Who makes that requirement?
As already mentioned, sous vide, though I usually cook a steak at 124f for 2 hours, a bit longer for tri-tips or other tougher cuts. Cast iron is just as good as a grill, sometimes better. While it’s hard to believe until you figure it out, cast iron is just as easy to clean as a non stick pan.
I’m telling you, it’s not about the weather. It’s about their fears in regards to dwindling resources in the future. They feel as though they must take more control over us, or they’ll die.
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