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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: 4, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 28 2018, @03:16AM (4 children)
The trouble there is, it's weird. It tastes funny. All the movies say liver is gross. In popular culture the guy that eats pancreas and sweetbreads is definitely the serial killer cannibal.
More than that, Americans don't cook anymore, and the only fast food place I've ever seen offer organs is Harold's Chicken on the South Side of Chicago. Everything is homogenized and scaled to the bland end of the spectrum.
Even if Americans did cook, there aren't a whole lot of culinary practices that call for those ingredients, beyond the stuffing for the Thanksgiving turkey. The French eat pate, Scots eat haggis, and Italians eat tripe, and it's tasty that way. But if a person doesn't have a familial connection to those cuisines, it's unlikely he'd be exposed to its possibilities.
There would have to be a massive marketing push to change it. Oprah would have to try it and smile. Dr. Phil would have to extol the health benefits. The magazines in the checkout aisle would have to feature splashy, attractive covers of the latest offal dish. It would have to go on for years, too, or it will enjoy a brief fling with hipsters and then flame out.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday November 28 2018, @05:27PM (3 children)
All that is entirely correct, though in my experience beef heart is really not that different from steak (and I don't even like red meat much...). Getting the celebs on board would definitely be helpful, yes, since this idiot country worships them.
I keep trying to figure out how to spin this so it gets through the average idiot American's head, and am getting nowhere. Maybe angle it as "this is how Americans ate In The Beginning. You can help Make American Great Again by eating smart and hardy just like the colonials did!" or so. Personally I would be swayed on this by the science, but most won't; maybe mentioning that using the bones for broth is not only thrifty but also helps heal gut issues would do it? Or mentioning that beef hearts have lots of CoQ10 and are good for *your* heart?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 28 2018, @08:12PM
Bone broth is excellent. Koreans eat it in the winter with scallions and marrow. But I suspect for average Americans to take to it the emphasis would have to be on the soup as a whole rather than the bones as an ingredient.
Likewise other organs would need to be sold that way. Pate points the way; people know it's a delicacy enjoyed by the wealthy, so they don't recoil from it even though they know it's liver.
I don't know how heart, kidneys, and the rest would be sold though. Is there a recipe to use heart in where it's not a big deal?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 28 2018, @08:16PM (1 child)
What is there to spin? The "average idiot" doesn't like beef heart and thus, won't eat it. As for the bone broth, that requires cooking, which is fine when you have a kitchen, experience, and time. When you don't, then it's just another thing that doesn't happen.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 28 2018, @08:20PM