Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet

Re:Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change ... by jbob2000 on Friday August 09, 2019 @08:15AM (#20653584)

Na, that's a red herring. We can reduce our meat consumption and not replace it with anything. Americans are over consuming food, we can definitely reduce meat intake without needing to replace it with foods shipped in from out of county.

Also, most of the US population is around the coasts. Shipping a bit of food inland to the people there isn't that big of an impact.

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Re:Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change ... by corodra on Friday August 09, 2019 @08:59AM (#20653853)

Eh, best to start with stop wasting food, then go with proper calorie count diet. Food waste in America is pretty bad. The gov already does PSAs to try bringing attention to the matter.

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Re:Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change ... by ben509 on Friday August 09, 2019 @08:49AM (#20653789)

> Americans are over consuming food

Overconsumption is generally less than 10% of their caloric needs, so they can't just drop a large source of nutrition.

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Re:Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change ... by mytailorisrich on Friday August 09, 2019 @08:57AM (#20653843)

Apparently, Americans throw away the equivalent of a third of the calories they consume, and interestingly a lot of fruits and veg. [1]

Reducing waste would dramatically help the environment.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/18/american...

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Re:Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change ... by jnwatson on Friday August 09, 2019 @08:40AM (#20653732)

So you’re just asking humans to consume fewer calories? Good luck with that.

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