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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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To: Olog-hai

Soylent Green, baby, Soylent Green!


61 posted on 01/22/2019 12:24:37 PM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: Olog-hai

Beef.
It’s what’s for dinner.


62 posted on 01/22/2019 12:29:04 PM PST by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' baby, Molon Labe)
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To: Yaelle

I’m pretty sure that’s not what I meant :P


63 posted on 01/22/2019 12:32:53 PM PST by chris37 (No wall? No vote.)
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To: Olog-hai

MEAT doesn’t cause obesity. CARBS + INACTIVITY does.


64 posted on 01/22/2019 12:34:14 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Ya lyublyu kovfefe!)
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I just finished a delicious sliced egg with olive oil mayo, pink salt and fresh ground pepper on a baguette. It was good too!


65 posted on 01/22/2019 12:34:33 PM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed it wright.)
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To: chris37

Lol... I was thinking the same thing. Humans are meant to eat meat and will, absolutely nothing will keep them from it. They may want to rethink this.


66 posted on 01/22/2019 12:43:30 PM PST by Openurmind
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Elitists are hypocrites, so I’m sure filet mignon is on the menu in Davos this week.


67 posted on 01/22/2019 12:51:05 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: dfwgator

Eat Mo Chicken!


68 posted on 01/22/2019 1:00:42 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: Openurmind

Yep, nothing.

Limit my menu, and I’ll make my own menu.

And they will not like it at all.


69 posted on 01/22/2019 1:02:48 PM PST by chris37 (No wall? No vote.)
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To: chris37

They obviously have not studied their history. lol


70 posted on 01/22/2019 1:14:57 PM PST by Openurmind
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To: Olog-hai

I will be having a rib eye steak later tonight.


71 posted on 01/22/2019 1:44:33 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Olog-hai
It is immoral for there to be billions of people on the planet.

But how are we going to get rid of them in the next 12 years?

Mass executions? Firing squads? Nuclear blasts? Jonestown grape Kool Aid?

Oh, I know. Let's ask A. O-C. She'll know the answer. She knows everything.

She was a bartender, ya' know. And a dancer....of sorts. Ya' know....

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My wife and I raise Angus beef cattle. But people still ask me occasionally if I'm a vegetarian.

You know that stare that says, "Are you really that stupid?" ?

72 posted on 01/22/2019 2:54:21 PM PST by HotHunt (Reagan was good but TRUMP IS GREAT!)
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To: Olog-hai


73 posted on 01/22/2019 3:51:24 PM PST by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Olog-hai

this is what we will have to eat.

Its “healthy, sustainable reference diet” would involve a complete restructuring of the average Irish person’s diet with beef and lamb consumption reduced by 90 per cent to just 7g a day, which is equivalent to roughly half a meatball.
People would also be limited to 7g of pork a day, equivalent to a single cocktail sausage, and just 29g of chicken or one and a half chicken nuggets.
Dairy consumption would also be curtailed to just one glass of milk a day (250ml) or less if you consume cheese or butter.
To get the required daily intake of calories, people would be expected to eat almost 18 times as much dry beans, soy and nuts.


74 posted on 01/22/2019 5:25:16 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!at)
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