The Future of Protein?
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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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Yes, plant-based meat is better for the planet
The environmental debate over meatless meat, explained.
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@nzzp said in The Future of Protein?:
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Yes, plant-based meat is better for the planet
The environmental debate over meatless meat, explained.
Fuck me
Agenda much?
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@mikethesnow said in The Future of Protein?:
@nzzp said in The Future of Protein?:
relevant:
Yes, plant-based meat is better for the planet
The environmental debate over meatless meat, explained.
Fuck me
Agenda much?
it has - but it also has a bunch of useful information on the environmental impacts of meat vs non-meat.
What I found really interesting is that chicken has a very low carbon footprint compared to fake meat. Really, with the beef the main issue is methane... which is a very short lived greenhouse gas (but pretty nasty)
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@ploughboy That's good to hear, not sure how they will overcome the land, water, feed issues though. I'm not sure beef will ever be as climate friendly as chicken or plant based and that could be the long term issue for the beef industry.
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@mikethesnow said in The Future of Protein?:
@nzzp said in The Future of Protein?:
relevant:
Yes, plant-based meat is better for the planet
The environmental debate over meatless meat, explained.
Fuck me
Agenda much?
Raised some very interesting points though no? My take away is if we want to help the planet we need to eat less beef and favour chicken.
The issue is people will not change behaviour even though we know how bad it is for the environment.
Ideally there should be some sort of carbon tax on foods that have a big impact on climate. Beef for example should be much more expensive than it is which may help reduce demand.
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@chimoaus Has anyone got a reasonably simplified resource that shows how beef farming Is not carbon neutral
obviously all the carbon produced by agriculture and horticulture, initially was souced from the atmosphere in the first place, so is it as simple as C02 ->C02 + CH4 where CH4 has a higher effective warming factor?
Other things at play here other than just a one factor approach.
Diversity of food sources is very important for a number of reasons. especially with monoculture farming if we are heavily reliant on pea/soy a bad season or new disease puts food supply at huge risk. you want as much diversity of food as possible to be resiliant to volatility. Cropping in particular can be heavily effected by bad weather at the wrong time, as we are seeing with kumara farming atm. where last year they had there biggest season ever.
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@muddyriver Have a read of the article posted above, should have some answers there. My understanding is most of the mono crops grown are actually fed to animals for us to then eat.
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@tim Agreed, and perhaps will be a market angle in the future for NZ Beef. Still hard to escape the emissions, water use, manure etc.
Australia has a lot more feed lots than many people realise and I happen to live not far from one. Thankfully I am far enough away theat the smell doesn't hit us but when driving past on certain days reminds me of driving past the slaughterhouse on a bad day.
I also think most land clearing in Australia and particularly QLD is for livestock. Australia I believe is one of the worst land clearing nations yet we are quick to condemn Brazil etc.
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can you back that up?
As someone who spends a bit of time on Qld cattle stations, i don't see a lot of evidence. Farmers certainly aren't bulldozing the Daintree to run cows. Those central and North Qld stations are the size of small countries with sparse tree cover as it is. Fuck all grows out west, it's hot and dry.
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@mariner4life yea flying over that place i dont know how cattle even survive
