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
What if I told you we already have beans…
What if I told you beans don’t taste like pork ribs? I love beans, but these things are not substitutes for one another, and insisting they are isn’t going to make anyone become vegan.
Beans are definitely a better substitute for rotting, tortured animal flesh.
I agree, but that argument doesn’t do anything for people who don’t really care about the animals’ suffering if it means they get to enjoy meat. They understand what they’re doing and have made the informed choice that they’re okay with the arrangement. If you want them to stop torturing animals you’re going to have to find them another way to get meat or you’re going to have to kill them.
I’m not talking about forward thinking rational people like us. I’m talking about selfish everypersons that want to barbeque on the weekends and watch football eating chicken wings. We need to give them sensible substitutes or they won’t change.
BBQs are easy
Here’s a tomato, mushroom, bell pepper, onion, 10 Cobb’s of corn, and a stack of black bean burgers.
Done.
Look I know your heart is in the right place, but there are a lot of people that straight up won’t touch vegan substitutes unless other options are unavailable. And even then they might just leave the barbeque or eat chips if there’s no burgers/brats.
I just gave you a pile of burgers.
Non vegans eat vegan food all the time. Jusy don’t tell them the chips and the salsa are vegan.