Carbon neutral and CO2 emissions, etc

ucbalumnus
Thu, 09 Sep 2021 01:26:58 +0000

bennty:

Most of my food-related work now is related less to obesity than it is to helping people find palatable ways of reducing meat consumption, since meat’s so enormously resource-intensive. As people move to plants, especially once they get over what I call the “cheese bump” (where they drown everything in cheese), they generally wind up eating fewer calories anyway. Partly because they start cooking and learning about food.

You might want to start with reducing beef consumption if you want to make the most environmental impact. However, it should also be noted that some non-meat foods like nuts and rice have large impacts on water consumption.

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