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Meat consumption must drop by 90% to avert climate crisis, report warns
Irish Times ^ | Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 13:12

Posted on 01/22/2019 10:53:28 AM PST by Olog-hai

Meat consumption in western countries such as Ireland may need to drop by 90 percent to avert a climate catastrophe and reverse the current obesity epidemic, a new study has warned.

The research by 20 influential food scientists, published in the Lancet Medical Journal, suggests the global food system is unsustainable and driving the planet towards environmental destruction while simultaneously leaving billions of people either underfed or overweight. […]

To get the required daily intake of calories, people would be expected to eat almost 18 times as much dry beans, soy and nuts. …

To promote the shift to a healthier diet based on a more sustainable food system, the study by the Eat-Lancet Commission, a collaboration of the Oslo-based Eat foundation and the Lancet Medical Journal, proposes a raft of measures including the introduction of a meat tax akin to the sugar tax and the withdrawal of certain products altogether. …

(Excerpt) Read more at irishtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Weather; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: biomedcentral; climatechange; climatechangehoax; eatlancetcommission; eurabia; eussr; fartyshadesofgreen; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; homosexualagenda; ireland; lancet; meat; meattax; soyboys; sugartax; varadkar
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1 posted on 01/22/2019 10:53:28 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

It just gets crazier as we go...


2 posted on 01/22/2019 10:54:16 AM PST by albie
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To: Olog-hai
These climate scammers should off themselves.

They waste electricity and trees publishing fraudulent hysteria.

3 posted on 01/22/2019 10:55:12 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Olog-hai

Wonder what’s on the menu at Davos....?


4 posted on 01/22/2019 10:55:52 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Olog-hai

Marxism is why the West can’t have nice things.


5 posted on 01/22/2019 10:55:53 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Olog-hai

More fakenews BS.


6 posted on 01/22/2019 10:56:40 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Typical Soy Boys wanting all men to eat estrogen promoting soy to add to their ranks.


7 posted on 01/22/2019 10:56:57 AM PST by JMS
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To: Olog-hai

The obesity epidemic is caused by sugars and high carb starches like french fries, not meat. I am a high meat/low-carb diet, and have lost five pounds in the first week.


8 posted on 01/22/2019 10:57:01 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Olog-hai
the introduction of a meat tax akin to the sugar tax

They should ask the Mayor of Philadelphia how that soda tax is working out for him.


9 posted on 01/22/2019 10:57:05 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Olog-hai

Billions of people are underfed or overweight.

So we must panic?

If the Left had their way over two billion would die suddenly.


10 posted on 01/22/2019 10:57:20 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Olog-hai

Of course technology companies like Impossible foods are trying to make a decent meat substitute, but I believe the concept of freedom should prevail. That means we get to decide what to consume, and the market gets to decide how much it costs.

A tax? Well, consider the whole world and figure out how to do it? I personally think this will not go down well.


11 posted on 01/22/2019 10:57:33 AM PST by KC_for_Freedom (retired aerospace engineer who also taught)
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Whadda-u-know . . . their solution involves another onerous tax . . . whooda thunk it. . . . /sarc


12 posted on 01/22/2019 10:57:54 AM PST by RatRipper
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To: Olog-hai

To get the required daily intake of calories, people would be expected to eat almost 18 times as much dry beans, soy and nuts. .......................................................

They think that stuff just comes from the stores just like electricity comes from the wall socket.


13 posted on 01/22/2019 10:58:19 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: JMS

These conferences at the Hague don’t serve meals of rice cakes and a slice of apple.


14 posted on 01/22/2019 10:58:36 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Olog-hai

What are we gonna do with all these fricken COWS if everyone stops eating them. They will fart and fart and the greenhouse gasses will buildup until the planet incinerates itself.

Dont these people listen to themselves when they spew?


15 posted on 01/22/2019 10:59:27 AM PST by Delta 21
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To: Olog-hai

I will supplement my daily protein intake with vegans.


16 posted on 01/22/2019 10:59:36 AM PST by chris37 (No wall? No vote.)
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To: shelterguy

All of those farts would kill the planet if we are to believe that cow farts are the current problem.


17 posted on 01/22/2019 10:59:44 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Olog-hai

Prime rib for me tonight (it wasn’t on the plan, but I always celebrate when petty tyrants attempt to tell me what choices I am permitted to make).


18 posted on 01/22/2019 10:59:55 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Olog-hai

Oh great. Then we’ll have even more cows farting polluting the air.


19 posted on 01/22/2019 10:59:55 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Olog-hai

Scientist doesn’t mean what it used to mean.


20 posted on 01/22/2019 11:00:18 AM PST by robel
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