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Dr. Helen Harwatt, farmed animal law and policy fellow at Harvard Law School, advises that getting protein from plant sources instead of animal sources would drastically help in meeting climate targets and reduce the risk of overshooting temperature goals.
For the first time, Dr. Harwatt proposes a three-step strategy to gradually replace animal proteins with plant-sourced proteins, as part of the commitment to mitigate climate change. These are:
1) Acknowledging that current numbers of livestock are at their peak and will need to decline ('peak livestock').
2) Set targets to transition away from livestock products starting with foods linked with the highest greenhouse gas emissions such as beef, then cow's milk and pig meat ('worst-first' approach).
3) Assessing suitable replacement products against a range of criteria including greenhouse gas emission targets, land usage, and public health benefits ('best available food' approach).
Harwatt further elaborates that recent evidence shows, in comparison with the current food system, switching from animals to plants proteins, could potentially feed an additional 350 million people in the US alone.
You can eat plants or insects, but not meat.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 28 2018, @12:00AM (3 children)
I thought vegans were bad enough, but then someone crossed one with a climate change zombie.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 28 2018, @12:30AM (2 children)
Jackass #666
Looks like the stupid is inbreeding, soon we will have super stupids running around fucking up everything for everyone else.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 28 2018, @12:59AM (1 child)
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