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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) by Sulla on Wednesday November 28 2018, @04:09AM
When i lived in a real state (Alaska) I would buy beef heart from the store on a regular basis and chicken liver and gizzards when they were cheap enough, beef liver as supply allowed. I would have liked to continue this in Oregon but beef heart is more expensive than other parts of the cow here. Organ meats are expensive and i dont really get why, my guess is that demand is so low that supply for the consumption by human market is too low to supply much for it, causing prices to be high. Have been finding some good ads on craigslist for $1/lb heart and liver, a little concerned about quality though.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam