Plant-based meat is a simple solution to climate woes - if more people would eat it

The Associated Press ^ | December 1, 2023 | BY DEE-ANN DURBIN AND DAVID MCHUGH

[Paal Gulli]

...The vegetarian myth tells us that not eating meat leads to a sustainable diet. But eating plants exclusively will not solve the planet’s problems...

...Life isn’t possible without death, and no matter what you eat, something has to die to feed you. The truth is that agriculture is the most destructive thing humans have done to the planet, and more of the same won’t save us. Today’s industrial agriculture requires the wholesale destruction of entire ecosystems....

...[L]arge portions of the world are utterly unsuited for growing large grain crops. And not just mountaintops in far distant Nepal, but close by in, say, New England. Cows are what grow here. So are deer, in their forest-destroying abundance. The logic of the land tells us to eat the animals that can eat the tough cellulose that survives here.

I think that this misunderstanding about animals and grain is born of an ignorance that runs the length and breadth of the vegetarian myth, through the nature of agriculture and ending in the nature of life. Most of us are now urban industrialists, and many of us don’t know the origins of our food. This includes many vegetarians, despite their claims to the truth. It included me, too, for 20 years. Anyone who ate meat was in denial; only I had faced the facts. Most people who consume factory-farmed meat have never asked what died and how. But frankly, neither have most vegetarians.

Mother Earth News: The Vegetarian Myth

The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability

[wetgundog]

Plant based meat... Cow eats grass, I eat cow.

[JimRed]

If no human took another bite of meat from this day forward, there would not be one degree of temperature difference or an inch of sea level change.

[JimRed]

Meati collects spores from mushroom roots, feeds them sugar and ferments them in stainless steel tanks full of water. In four days, a single microscopic spore can produce the equivalent of a whole cow’s worth of meat.

The word meat needs to be displayed thusly: "meat". It's as much meat as a tranny is a woman.

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[AF_Blue]

The burgers at Burger King are run through a gas-fired broiler on a conveyor. They go in frozen, and come out a few minutes later flame-broiled.

Yes, the Impossible Whopper is cooked the same way.

[Tymesup]

If, as the excerpt suggests, it comes from mushroom spores, doesn’t that make it fungus based?

[gov_bean_ counter]

Sounds reasonable.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gtjc5c9pt9Q

[Songcraft]

Last month they were telling us that plant-eating cows cause all kinds of climate problems, because eating plants causes them to fart like a democrat.   What the heck do they think is going to happen to the air and the climate when normal people all switch to a plant-based diet, and start farting like a Holstein?


      

[Lizavetta]

Eating soy lowers testosterone. If you’re a guy and you want a nice pair of man boobs, eat plenty of this plant-based “meat”.

Have you noticed Asians, who consume the most soy by far, having moobs? I haven't. But I have noticed fat American men, most likely meat eaters, with moobs.

And the phytoestrogens in soy is not the same as the hormone estrogen in the human body.