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posted by chromas on Tuesday November 27 2018, @11:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the beat-it,-don't-eat-it dept.

Phys.org:

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 28 2018, @06:23AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 28 2018, @06:23AM (#767233)

    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)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 28 2018, @08:13AM (#767250)

    Eating larvae is not "improvement". It's the opposite.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 28 2018, @08:06PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 28 2018, @08:06PM (#767448)

      Reducing meat consumption and increasing plant consumption is an improvement. No need to eat larvae.

      What is with the levels of paranoia around here?