255 grams per week. That’s the short answer to how much meat you can eat without harming the planet. And that only applies to poultry and pork.
Beef cannot be eaten in meaningful quantities without exceeding planetary boundaries, according to an article published by a group of DTU researchers in the journal Nature Food. So says Caroline H. Gebara, postdoc at DTU Sustain and lead author of the study."
Our calculations show that even moderate amounts of red meat in one’s diet are incompatible with what the planet can regenerate of resources based on the environmental factors we looked at in the study. However, there are many other diets—including ones with meat—that are both healthy and sustainable," she says.
Can we please get moving on the lab grown meats already. This shit is getting depressing.
Vegetables aren’t so scary, are they?
Not “scary”. There’s just never enough of them to fill the void inside me.
Eat beans and starch!!
That’s psychological, the important things for fullness are fat, protein, and fiber. You can get all of those through vegetables, but it’s easy to convince your brain you’re not full. I don’t automatically feel full if I don’t eat hot food, so I have to be a little aware of it on super hot days. But it’s easy enough to tally up what I’ve actually eaten vs what exercise I’ve done and that helps my body realize that it is sated.
We really don’t need lab grown stuff when the meat alternatives on the market now are already so good
If you haven’t tried any yet, I highly recommend Impossible meat, it’s virtually indistinguishable from the real thing. Quorn is another great option.
And on a budget, Seitan is also fantastic.
Honestly I think the meat alternatives are pretty terrible compromises to the real thing. We should be cooking to enhance the veggies flavor instead of trying to force them to be meat.
What is wrong with beans?? You’re never going to get lab meat as good as beans in your lifetime. It’s a designer product for large children who are terrified of changing their diet.
I disagree. I imagine a future where the meat industry consists of luxury ranches, where prized specimen livestock are allowed to roam freely, grazing on the best grains all day, and attended by dutiful handlers at the ready to facilitate their every comfort. Each one, allowed to grow old and die naturally, never knowing fear or hardship.
All that’s required of them is the occasional tissue sample in order to keep cloning stocks up to date and viable.
Meanwhile, off in a separate facility, its meat is being mass produced to feed millions. Everyone wins.