Plant Based Meats Do More to Address Climate Change Than Green Buildings or Zero-Emission Cars
added by Mike Tannenbaum · updated 2y ago
Plant Based Meats Do More to Address Climate Change Than Green Buildings or Zero-Emission Cars
by shifting the split to 40, 50, and 10 percent, we could (thanks to grain feed saved by reducing inefficient beef production) produce easily 30 percent more chicken meat and 20 percent more pork, while more than halving beef’s environmental burden—and still supplying at least 10 percent more meat.
from Numbers Don't Lie by Vaclav Smil
Jimmy Cerone added
Wild that something simple could work. But also wild that something as simple as changing our eating habits is so damn hard.
My calculations show that in the future—by lowering the share of beef and raising the share of pork, chicken meat, eggs, and dairy products, by more efficient feeding, and by better use of crop residues and food processing by-products—we could match recent global meat output while greatly limiting livestock’s environmental impact, including its sha
... See morefrom How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going by Vaclav Smil
- Currently, the global food system accounts for nearly a third of greenhouse gas emissions, and land use for livestock production has been a devastating force of deforestation, using up 80 percent of global farmland to provide fewer than 20 percent of the calories consumed globally.
from Restriction as Possibility; Lifestyle as Politics - MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food by Mold
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