Yeah, meat is so heavily subsidized. And I’ll acknowledge that this is one of those problems that you can’t really solve unless you’re willing to yank your political career and your party. People don’t want to quit meat like they don’t want gas to be expensive enough to account for the damage done by using it

But those numbers already existed. Those conclusions weren't drawn up out of nothing.

If 70% of the food we cultivate goes directly to our livestock, then we could only ever eat 30% of it ourselves. Meaning, for something that takes up 1/3 of our plate, we use almost 5 times as much resourses just to feed it as either of the other 2/3.

I'm not vegan, but I've been trying to limit my groceries to have 1 meat based dinner each week. I have really enjoyed using chickpeas as my protein for lots of different things. My favorite right now is a chickpea shawarma.

nooooooo we want them to buy the OTHER kind of plant based meat alternatives, the lucrative ones.

And they’re easy! Like I enjoy fake meat as a treat, but as my wife can’t eat soy my primary meat replacement is black beans. Sometimes butter beans. It’s great, it’s easy, and I feel good.

That said the real best is lentils. Nothing is healthy like lentils are. They’re just difficult to cook right

I wish it was more obvious to the average person as it is needed to counter the mainstream media’s false narrative that “processed plant-based protein alternatives are less healthy than meat”

You say that but there arent campaigns to disinform people that the sky is actually red.

They're gonna take down the post for "unhealthy diets" lol

@Rooki@lemmy.world

Depends where you live, some countries the vegan stuff is cheaper than the meat

Yeah this is all I want. I can barely afford to eat normally right now, if this got priced reasonably I'd be all over it.

Didn't read the article but raw packaged meats are often (depending on local regulation) injected with sodium solutions.

So much this. Last time I brought it up, I was asked "what's the matter, you don't season your food?"

Uh... There are more seasonings than SALT, yo. You can add more of it, but once it's in there...