Posted on 03/09/2023 1:02:48 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
New diet trends are taking on climate change, one plate at a time.
You may have heard of "meatless Mondays" or maybe even "vegan before 6." Now, more consumers are making deliberate food choices and even altering entire dietary practices with sustainability in mind.
"Young people are definitely concerned about the planet. They know they have many, many more years left and they want there to be a healthy and sustainable planet," says Brian Kateman. The author and documentarian decided to eat less meat after learning how damaging it is to the environment. Kateman even coined a term for it: reducetarian.
"A reducetarian is anyone who's made the decision to cut back on the amount of animal products that they consume - so that's meat, eggs and dairy," says Kateman.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, nearly 15% of all greenhouse gas emissions come from meat production.
"It takes a lot of resources," says Kateman. "You think of the land, you think of the water, you think of all the food you have to feed to the animals."
The food production industry is paying attention and companies are trying to latch on to younger, climate-conscious consumers.
"It's a competitive advantage for companies to be seen as at the forefront of doing something about climate change," says marketing expert Michelle Greenwald.
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I’ll start ....thick juicy steaks and beer ...who’s next?
Stop eating and die.
They’re not kosher, and probably infected, so eating liberals is out.
But it would actually save the planet.
Maybe we could upcycle them into fertilizer, as a compromise.
I don’t even eat with *my own* health in mind. And yet I’m expected to do so with the *planet’s* health in mind? Sorry,not in *this* lifetime!
These people need to get a life.
Why aren’t they kosher? Because they’re pigs? Just askin’...
Yep. Reduce your carbon footprint climate alarmists... Off yourself. Win / win.
I plan to up my carnivorous intake now that the vegans are recruiting “[IQ] reducetarians.”
The ditzy broad currently running the Department of the Interior wants to increase the size of all tribal buffalo herds. If you don’t allow the buffalo flatulence to upset your green weenie mindset, we’ll all be eating buffalo steaks and buffalo wings.
Yum.
I bought a book by an MD heart specialist: How Not to Die. Very interesting, as I was just diagnosed with congestive heart failure.
Vegan diet recommended. No caffeine, no salt, no butter. no dairy, and walking 40 minutes every day. My friend actually does that and looks far far too young to have grandchildren. For her, it’s not about the planet, it’s for herself.
Big sigh.
They do not have split hooves or chew cud. So as land animals they are right out.
These guys sound like fags.
“reducetarian” HUH!
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