From Our World in Data
I shared this in a comment recently and I’m wondering if it led to this post.
Eat less meat, please! Not asking anyone to be vegan, just eat less meat.
I think a lot of us have been eating less in general due to how expensive food is right now, and that includes meat so that’s a win I guess?
Semi joking aside that’s a very reasonable approach to this problem. For some reason people like my parents “need” beef or some kind of meat with every meal, which is expensive and caused my mom to get gout. Yet her diet stays the same. There’s very little middle ground with people on this topic, so it’s refreshing to see someone suggesting we just eat less of it.
I need lean protein and meat is the best source. I mostly eat chicken but beef is number 2 behind that. I’ll eat pork but don’t really care for it. Unfortunately I don’t like fish aside from canned tuna. So options are limited. I’ve tried finding vegetarian meals but most of what I found has poor macros compared to meat and requires a lot more prep time. I don’t really care where my nutrition comes from as long as it tastes okay. If they made a human version of dog food that met my macro requirements I’d just carry a bag of that around everywhere.
I shared this in a comment recently and I’m wondering if it led to this post.
Maybe. I got it from @Ephera@lemmy.ml
Ah, that’s a coincidence, in this case.
I had read this comment asking for environmental cost of certain foods and I remembered there being a solid report on that by Hannah Ritchie on ourworldindata.org, so I started researching that, but then stumbled over this graph instead. @zeekaran@sopuli.xyz
The difference between beef and lamb, and pigs and poultry is way more than I thought.
I didn’t think coffee and chocolate would be so high.
I wonder where tea falls there?
Nuts are interesting. Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought certain types of nuts (like almonds) require massive amounts of water. I think almonds require more water than an equivalent amount of chicken. I know this chart is about CO2, so kinda a apples to oranges comparison, but I’m curious if that is something that should also be considered when discussing environmental impact of foods?
I’m not full vegan/vegetarian, but I’ve cut out all the beef/dairy that I can from my diet, just because of how bad cows in general are for the environment with their methane farts, though I think there may be methods to reduce emissions. I’m guessing that costs money though, so fuck that, we need cheap beef. I think if people just took that step of cutting that one animal out of our food chain, it’d be alot easier for people to do, rather than trying to cut out all meat and going vegan.
similar here - graphs like this helped the push to cut out most red meat from our menu. Emphasis “most” as we are neither vegan nor do we refuse beef items at restaurants or as guests.
but like you said, by just cutting out most beef, while allowing occasional items, would be a big step forward. We also cut out some pork, and try to get most protein from poultry and plant-protein. The reason for pork then adds seeing how terrible their conditions are and knowing how smart they are.
