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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: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 28 2018, @04:06AM (4 children)
The United States are the template for the world yet liberals are always trying to make things worse or shame us. You know what? Find happiness in yourself and learn from our success in being a bread basket of the world. You can't fix what's not broken. You can't control us.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 28 2018, @06:23AM (2 children)
This is the problem, you think it is some fascist authoritarian thing to point out reality and how we can improve things. No one is forcing you to do anything, no one is trying to control you, but a fuckton of people are trying to educate you and praying some little bit of it sticks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 28 2018, @08:13AM (1 child)
Eating larvae is not "improvement". It's the opposite.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 28 2018, @08:06PM
Reducing meat consumption and increasing plant consumption is an improvement. No need to eat larvae.
What is with the levels of paranoia around here?
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday November 28 2018, @08:29AM
Globalism almost killed our Country. Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities. Rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our Nation. An education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of knowledge. And the crime and gangs and drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our Country of so much unrealized potential. Until I stopped the American "carnage."
We are ONE NATION. And their pain is our pain. Their dreams are our dreams, and their success will be our success. We share One Heart, One Home, and One glorious Destiny!!!