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.
Let’s be honest about how unrealistic it is to expect people to voluntarily adhere to this. We need large scale lab meat asap
Oh god no.
Look at how much we fucked up natural meat with all the hormones and feed. Lab grown meat must be cheaper to make to compete with it, so imagine how atrocious the quality of it will be, from both health and nutrition perspective.
The problem is that people won’t give up personal luxuries for some vague ‘save the planet’ cause. This is simple fact. The only way to satisfy people’s desire for meat and the planet’s ecological balance is production of artificial meat.
If you don’t think it’ll have the best texture or nutritional value, then that’s fine. Do you think the people getting McDonald’s cares about those things?
I’d rather not fed slab to the masses, thank you. Not only for ethical reasons, but also for monetary ones.
I’m all for the French model where they are taught (and given time and money) to consume healthy food. It’s the only Western nation where the obesity rate is low AND decreasing.