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.

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.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    21 hours ago

    And all ills in the current world are the result of a very small set of people. A small group of people has been pushing meat eating like crazy.a small set of people placed tiny taxes on meat.

    A tiny percent of people are the reason why shipping is so big and so polluting. I can’t change that, nobody can change that, except a tiny amount of people.

    A tiny percentage of people are the reason why we have such differences in wealth in society.

    It’s a tiny amount of people that are the push behind all wars

    I could go on for a while but blaming the common people for the world’s ills is disingenuous from my perspective.

    You want everyone to eat less meat? Start taxing meat properly. That requires politicians to do their jobs: make decisions that will make the world better for everyone, instead of making decisions that will make him or her get elected again.

    Most politicians are lazy and or think people are stupid. People would understand meat being more expensive if explanations of why would be clearly posted everywhere and alternatives would become cheaper and more abundant.

    Then again, we now live in a world where all idiots have a bigger megaphone than any scientist ever had. That too should change. I’m aorry, fuck your free speech, not everybody should be allowed to have a megaphone and talk about stuff, but that is a slightly different subject. Either way, that too could be solved by a tibt sliver of people