The Future of Protein?
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@mariner4life said in The Future of Protein?:
if they take away my ability to purchase animals, then i will eat people
so vegetarians should be safe, as they will have a far less meaty taste..
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@kirwan said in The Future of Protein?:
As far as alternative protein sources go, I’d bet on bugs beating lab grown meat. Lots of progress being made on that front too.
Thai's love eating bugs. And pay good money (by Thai stds) for them. I thought of trying but gave it a miss
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@winger said in The Future of Protein?:
@kirwan said in The Future of Protein?:
As far as alternative protein sources go, I’d bet on bugs beating lab grown meat. Lots of progress being made on that front too.
Thai's love eating bugs. And pay good money (by Thai stds) for them. I thought of trying but gave it a miss
Yeah, will have to be presented slightly differently to western eaters.
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@chimoaus soy would have to be one of the most popular and subsidized crops in the world. And a huge amount of deforestation has gone on to allow that. Now often that's used for feeding agriculture at high intensive feeding farms.
I would definitely avoid a world based on soy protein if I could
Also monculture industrial horticulture is very very harsh on soils and requires a alot of water usually through irrigation so the trade off isn't so amazing.
Basically less people allows for low intensive farming like nzs beef and sheep farms which by world standards are as low cost to the environment as food can be.
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@muddyriver said in The Future of Protein?:
Basically less people
so back to the cannibalism part mentioned at the start
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@taniwharugby unvaccinated or "organic" humans top of list, will be mandated shortly.
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@mariner4life said in The Future of Protein?:
if they take away my ability to purchase animals, then i will eat people
I'll send you some recipes.
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@muddyriver said in The Future of Protein?:
@taniwharugby unvaccinated or "organic" humans top of list, will be mandated shortly.
with all the plastics in the world are there any?
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@winger Nothing wrong with eating bugs. Crickets are surprisingly pleasant. Silk worms are bloody fantastic.
@antipodean said in The Future of Protein?:
She said it was "weird". Then when pressed asked how you could be know what cut it was modelled on, i.e. how you weren't getting a turdburger made from lips and arseholes, or a rolled roast wasn't a dick, etc.
Hope your missus doesn't eat commercial sausages then
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@muddyriver said in The Future of Protein?:
@taniwharugby unvaccinated or "organic" humans top of list, will be mandated shortly.
Can we add cyclists and vegans ?
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Haven't read most of the comments, but aquaculture will be a big thing in the future.
Personally I can live without red meat but I'll declare war if you take my chicken or turkey.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in The Future of Protein?:
Haven't read most of the comments, but aquaculture will be a big thing in the future.
Personally I can live without red meat but I'll declare war if you take my chicken or turkey.
I’m defriending, blocking AND reporting you on every platform I possibly can.
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@mn5 said in The Future of Protein?:
@rancid-schnitzel said in The Future of Protein?:
Haven't read most of the comments, but aquaculture will be a big thing in the future.
Personally I can live without red meat but I'll declare war if you take my chicken or turkey.
I’m defriending, blocking AND reporting you on every platform I possibly can.
Pffft. I'll never get banned from here.
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@frank said in The Future of Protein?:
I have been a vegetarian for over 20 years and would welcome less animals being slaughtered and plant protein being used instead. I have never really thought about the environmental angle and I suppose that is important (because that actually might hurt humans so people are now worried - ha ha), I just feel sad when I see animals killed (and growing up on a farm, I saw a lot of that).
Same for me, both in time as a vegetarian and my original reasons, but when I did a bit of reading as a teenager, even then (1994), clearing South American rainforest for beef farming was a known environmental problem both in terms of lost biodiversity and the greenhouse effect from reducing carbon dioxide sinks.
There's a lot of research to show that land is used more efficiently when it produces food for people directly than for animals which are eaten later (in that more people can be fed per hectare of land from one than the other), but it's a bit limited in NZ because there is a lot of land here that is nearly useless agricultural land, but adequate pastoral land e.g. sheep can easily survive on grass on the side of a hill that can't be farmed, so sheep at least converts non-arable land into food.
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@nta said in The Future of Protein?:
Make it smell and taste like bacon, and I don't give a shit.
Especially if it lowers my chance of colon cancer.
Speaking of bacon - discovered this recently and it is fucking awesome at the work of turning salad into something good:
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relevant:
Yes, plant-based meat is better for the planet
The environmental debate over meatless meat, explained.
