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"Plant-based meat’s environmental impact is 91 percent lower than beef, 88 percent lower than pork, and 71 percent lower than chicken.
If plant-based alternatives could capture half of the global protein market, the reduction in animal products would cut GHGs more than the entire electric vehicle sector."
@ExtinctionR Yeah, burning rainforest to plant soya beans and for palm oil is clearly the answer. Oh wait…
@ZS @ExtinctionR three quarters of soy grown globally is used for animal feed rather than human food. It would be far more efficient if we ate the soy directly rather than feeding it to animals then eating them https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation#more-than-three-quarters-of-global-soy-is-fed-to-animals
@afewbugs @ZS @ExtinctionR Even the palm oil is mostly used in non-vegan foods because non-vegans don't care and vegans boycott palm oil (they know) and is not profitable to sell in vegan products.
@afewbugs @ZS @ExtinctionR soy is also not directly edible, requires lots of enwrgy and time to process into aoy milk, produces considerable waste and requires deforestation to grow into industrial quantities
@f4grx @ZS @ExtinctionR dairy milk is also not safe to drink directly in an industrial context and requires pasteurisation first. Dairy has a significantly higher environmental impact than any plant milk in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, land and water use https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impact-milks. As is illustrated in my previous toot, the vast majority of soy is grown for animal not human food.
