Posted on 04/25/2022 4:21:57 PM PDT by Trillian
Swapping animal products for future foods such as insect protein or cultured milk could reduce global warming, water and land use by over 80 per cent, a new study suggests.
Researchers used computer modelling to find the optimal diet combination to meet nutritional needs, while also minimising global warming potential, water and land use.
They found that if people in Europe replaced meat and dairy with foods produced through new technologies, such as making fake steak out of bovine cells, it could significantly reduce all environmental impacts.
Not only that, but it would be nutritionally adequate and meet the constraints for what can be feasibly consumed, according to experts at the University of Helsinki.
They said that alternative diets such as vegetarian, vegan or flexitarian, had demonstrated the health and environmental benefits of shifting towards lower meat consumption.
But novel or future foods (NFFs) — including cultured milk, insect meal or mycoprotein — can contain a more complete array of essential nutrients compared to currently available plant-based protein-rich (PBPR) options like legumes, pulses and grains, according to the researchers.
They said NFFs also tend to be more land and water-efficient than existing animal-sourced products.
Cultured milk is where it has been fermented with lactic acid bacteria such as Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, and Leuconostoc.
This increases the shelf life of the product, while also enhancing its taste and improving digestibility.
'Global food systems face the challenge of providing healthy and adequate nutrition through sustainable means, which is exacerbated by climate change and increasing protein demand by the world's growing population,' the researchers, led by lead author Rachel Mazac, wrote in their paper.
'Recent advances in novel food production technologies demonstrate potential solutions for improving the sustainability of food systems.
'We estimate the possible reductions in global warming potential, water use and land
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You first.
They won’t push their fake meat “solution” to the “problem” of water and land use to the poor nations still making babies well above replacement rates. Only the baby aborting west will be expected to change their behaviors.
Since leftist dems believe that we normal people are only a tiny fringe group, and that the vast majority of people are like them, I say let them eat bugs and twigs, and we can continue to eat real food, because how could a tiny number of people cause any “harm” by doing what they want?
God didn’t give us canine teeth and put us at the top of the food chain to eat bugs and tofu.
F OFF
Looks like the bug paste isn’t just a conspiracy theory.
I estimate they will go broke trying to get people to eat that crap.
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A solution for a problem WE don’t have
Let the rich folks do it for a few decades. Then maybe the poor folks will see how cool it is and want to join in. Or not.
No smoking hot spot David Evans - THE AUSTRALIAN July 18, 20081. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it.
Each possible cause of global warming has a different pattern of where in the planet the warming occurs first and the most. The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever.
If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming. If we had found the greenhouse signature then I would be an alarmist again.
The Global Warming Nuts should do it first and show us how it’s done ,LOL
They are gross
Um, milk comes mostly from cows, which are also made of beef.
Lower in calories maybe?
We are an advanced civilization not a Cult
My ancestors didn’t endure all the travails it took to survive just for their descendents to wind up eating bugs and germ paste.
Top of the food chain and dare any big eaters to knock me off!
All people that worry about climate change should kill themselves.
Problem solved.
In this case I agree with you 100% because in the end you always Putout what you Putin.
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