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Going vegan isn't the only option. Humans need to give more consideration to edible insects. (seriously) See the history of eating lobsters for an example of how attitudes can change.
https://angel.co/newsletters/youll-be-eating-crickets-soon-1...
I'm going to say something very unpopular: If your plan to save the world includes requiring all 9 billion people to fundamentally change their lives (especially if its perceived as a degradation of their current quality of life), it's never going to work. Now I'll speak for myself. I will not go vegan, given the current offering of vegan foodstuffs. It just doesn't taste as good. I know it may be better for me than…
I agree we are probably past the point of no return and I am a (non-orthodox) pescetarian (sp?). Here is why... I have never owned a car and bike everywhere and I also basically just eat peanut butter+jelly/ cereal/ 'rabbit food' as my old HS XC used to call it - and try to stay alive by also drinking kefir. This is all because I am cheap and lazy and increasingly set in my ways. So I do not really have a decrease in…
You're not sacrificing anything by eating just fish.
Maybe there's some sort of religious distinction for you, but meat is any muscle tissue from a living creature.
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> A better one, like you mention, is rice - again a crop with substantially worse carbon impact than chicken. Do you have a source for that? The data at [0] indicates that chicken is about 50% worse than rice in terms of CO2e per Calorie. In fact, chicken is worse than every vegan food listed there except for broccoli, which has very few Calories to begin with. [0] https://sustainability.stackexchange.com/questions/5…
AFAIK, the problem with rice is methane not CO2.
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I mean come on, a diet of 100% tomatoes does not make any sense, right? The bulk of human calories on a whole food plant based diet comes typically from beans, legumes chickpeas, soy, root vegetables like potatoes and sweet potatoes, starches in general, grains like whole rice, quinoa, etc. Then another good portion of the calories typically comes from fruit, and another good portion comes from vegetables and salads.…
You're right, it's a poor example. I guess I was thinking of tomato pastas and tomato soups, for instance. A better one, like you mention, is rice - again a crop with substantially worse carbon impact than chicken. Fruits are even more complex - if you get them in season, locally and actually eat them, they are fantastic. If you buy them out of season, due to their short shelf-life you'll find they are often air ship…
They are made from varieties that taste good and they are picked ripe instead of for shipping.
For cooking, canned tomatoes are usually better than fresh store tomatoes. The fresh ones are for salads or whatever.
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Farms grow crops that you can't eat, to feed to animals that you can. Name the protein and fat sources that will replace meat. Tofu? We already grow soy for animal feed as a cash crop and it's pesticide and fertilizer intensive, and if people eat it directly instead of as an animal feed additive its production will grow at the expense of forests and soil health. Nuts? I'm all for perennial woody agriculture, but the…
> Name the protein and fat sources that will replace meat. Insects?
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Interesting, I've never felt any quality of life loss when going vegan. Just the opposite. I feel much better and food is delicious now that I have discovered a whole new range of food that I never considered before.
I'm glad you feel that way. I've looked at the array of foods I'd have to give up, and it's not worth it. > now that I have discovered a whole new range of food that I never considered before. Here's the awesome thing from my point of view: I can eat vegan foods and hamburgers. :) Nothing about eating meat prevents me from also eating vegan dishes.
I do eat meat, but these days ~90% of my diet is vegetarian. My favorite burger place around is... a vegan one. I never tried it before, now it's my number one when I crave for a burger. Go figure.
Some people go vegan because they care about morality and "purity", but the fact is - if everyone really tried to consider alternatives to meat and eat it only occasionally, even without taking any moral stance about it, the environmental impact of meat production would look completely different than it does now (and would actually be less problematic morally as well).
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Normal person? What about abnormal athletes, or people who do weight training? How many peas are required if you want both a calorie surplus and 1 to 1.5 grams of protein per lb of body weight?
And do you think this is a real problem because a relevant amount of people are doing weighttrainig? I don't think so. I would even bet that the amount is way below 1%
Any chance, any of the readers here are researching on it actively?
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The only nutrient deficiency that is rather difficult to circumvent with a vegan diet is Vitamin B. Meat is one of the only places humans can obtain it. Everything else is trivial to obtain via plants.
You mean B12? This is produced by bacteria in the dust. It gets injected to animals in factory farms, that's why they have it in that environment. We can also take the supplement directly.
Pasture-raised meat ideally gets its cobalt from the ground, but most of the time there is a lack of cobalt so the animals need supplementation themselves. Factory-farmed animals, however, are always directly supplemented. Ironic, isn't it?
Personally, I have no choice but to supplement my B12s, as meat causes my body to produce kidney stones.