[...] Agricultural data from 38,700 farms plus details of processing and retailing in 119 countries show wide differences in environmental impacts — from greenhouse gas emissions to water used — even between producers of the same product, says environmental scientist Joseph Poore of the University of Oxford. The amount of climate-warming gases released in the making of a pint of beer, for example, can more than double under high-impact production scenarios. For dairy and beef cattle combined, high-impact providers released about 12 times as many greenhouse gases as low-impact producers, Poore and colleague Thomas Nemecek report in the June 1 Science.
[...] The greatest changes in the effect of a person’s diet on the planet, however, would still come from choosing certain kinds of food over others. On average, producing 100 grams of protein from beef leads to the release of 50 kilograms of greenhouse gas emissions, which the researchers calculated as a carbon-dioxide equivalent. By comparison, 100 grams of protein from cheese releases 11 kg in production, from poultry 5.7 kg and from tofu 2 kg.
[...] Producing food overall accounts for 26 percent of global climate-warming emissions, and takes up about 43 percent of the land that’s not desert or covered in ice, the researchers found. Out of the total carbon footprint from food, 57 percent comes from field agriculture, livestock and farmed fish. Clearing land for agriculture accounts for 24 percent and transporting food accounts for another 6 percent.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday June 07 2018, @01:51AM (7 children)
Vitamin B12 - Methylcobalamine - is required to make red blood cells and is not found in plants. Not Even A Little Bit.
My doc told me that a B12 deficiency can cause brain damage. The guy who discovered it won the Medicine Nobel for curing Pernicious Anemia, a formerly fatal disease that killed young boys. All they need to live to ripe old ages is regular B12 injections.
But the good news is that B12 is found in fungus. Try some brewer's yeast on your fried tofu for supper tonight; brewers yeast tastes really, really good.
For reasons that surely make no sense, I never see B12 listed on Nutrition Facts labels.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by corey on Thursday June 07 2018, @02:35AM (2 children)
Wrong. Quick look on our friend Wiki reveals B12 is found in fermented foods and seaweed, algae etc.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B12 [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by qzm on Thursday June 07 2018, @04:30AM
Probably because none of those are actually plants?
(Score: 2) by Taibhsear on Thursday June 07 2018, @03:15PM
The b12 in the fermented foods is from the microorganisms doing the fermenting, not the plants.
(Score: 5, Informative) by takyon on Thursday June 07 2018, @02:38AM
https://www.livestrong.com/article/453954-brewers-yeast-vitamin-b12/ [livestrong.com]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutritional_yeast [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B12 [wikipedia.org]
How many times do I have to say it?
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(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday June 07 2018, @02:40AM (1 child)
I'm not a cook. But I eat a lot so I know a lot about food. And I'll tell you, yeast is not a mushroom.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07 2018, @07:13AM
yeast is not a mushroom.
After a few shrooms, (or maybe quite a lot) you might be willing to revise your opinion!
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday June 07 2018, @08:57AM
Yucks! Why do that when I can use Vegemite?
It would be like eating snails raw instead of preparing them first (grin)
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