Posted on 12/01/2023 7:17:54 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
… Eating more plants and fewer animals is among the simplest, cheapest and most readily available ways for people to reduce their impact on the environment, climate scientists have long said. According to one University of Michigan study, if half of U.S. animal-based food was replaced with plant-based substitutes by 2030, the reduction in emissions for that year would be the equivalent of taking 47.5 million vehicles off the road.
An explosion of new types of plant-based “meat” — the burgers, nuggets and other cuts that closely resemble meat but are made from soybeans and other plants — is attracting customers all over the world. Between 2018 and 2022, global retail sales of plant-based meat and seafood more than doubled to $6 billion, according to Euromonitor, a market research firm.
Still, that’s dwarfed by global retail sales of packaged animal meat and seafood, which grew 29% in the same period to $302 billion.
And sales have been uneven. While demand for plant-based meat is growing rapidly in some countries like Germany and Australia, sales have flattened in the U.S.
Colorado-based Meati makes chewy, fibrous steak filets and chicken cutlets from mushroom roots. Its chicken cutlet has fewer calories, less cholesterol and nearly as much protein as animal chicken.
Meati collects spores from mushroom roots, feeds them sugar and ferments them in stainless steel tanks full of water. In four days, a single microscopic spore can produce the equivalent of a whole cow’s worth of meat.
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Plant-based meat is a misnomer. If it is plant-based, it is NOT meat; it is plant trying to imitate meat.
That and bug cuisine are a hard PASS.
And if meat was good enough for our ancestors, it's good enough for me.
Tell government to get out of the food business. I'm not a rabbit.
The more CO2 they reduce, the less plants there will be to eat.
Deep State clearly does.
And all the problems Deep State sees require the same solution.
Annihilating the middle class with any and every means necessary.
“Plant-based meat”
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Lessee here - livestock eats plant-based plants, so I figure I’m covered both ways if I BBQ some ribs this weekend.
Always happy to stop the world from ending any way I can!
Near as I can figure out the “carbon” they want to eliminate is you.
I prefer meat-based plants. Bacon salad does it for me.
Rice Cakes for all!!!
And you WILL enjoy them. Lots of water.
Well, the plant identifies as meat. Plants can bleed too, you know. (/s)
That generally applies to processed soybeans, tofu being one such product. Eating it in its green state, usually named edamame (in pods and shelled), is a much safer and healthier choice for soy.
Maybe you'll have to show them the way. Make eating plant-based "meat" a requirement for employment at AP!
So before the industrial revolution....no one ate meat...because that’s when they say climate started warming. There’s simply no correlation.
Let’s just let cows turn plants into meat.
There are no climate woes, and I won’t eat Frankenstein meat.
And if my aunt had testes.....
Yep, I think in the end it may very well be the black people who save us from these schemes. Whites are afraid to say what they think about these things, but black people aren’t.
First, you have to agree there even are “climate woes”.
Who buys this nonsense? I understand them trying to sell it,
I just don’t understand who is actually dumb enough or narcissistic enough to believe it.
Yet another way to weaken Americans’ health.
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