‘I’d rather eat an actual burger’: plant-based meat’s sizzle fizzled in the US

Re:‘I’d rather eat an actual burger’: plant-based meat’s siz... by DAVer98 on Saturday September 24, 2022 @08:14PM (#32967788)

It's now known that adding a 3% concentration of a specific algae/seaweed to a cow's diet reduces their emissions by something like 80%+: "New Long-Term Study Could Mean More Sustainable Burgers" - https://caes.ucdavis.edu/news/feeding-cattle-seaweed-reduces...

So the current harm that is used as the primary reason [allegedly] for the push to reducing meat consumption (global climate change) becomes a moot point and actually a relatively very low added cost if needed to start mass producing and farming seaweed to add to a cow's feed; if this isn't part of the conversation of those pushing for beef alternatives, then realize they are ideological and not critically thinking - and may have ulterior motive, even if that's simply trying to generate/drive profit for their own industry of plant-based products.

Compared to plants (3000 gallons for one bushel) cows dont use much water either.

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Re:‘I’d rather eat an actual burger’: plant-based meat’s siz... by linsomniac on Sunday September 25, 2022 @11:17PM (#32978975)

The Mark Rober video asserts that 24 hamburgers use "a pool full of water". The same amount of water can make 75 loaves of whole grain bread and 30 jars of peanut butter (roughly the same calories and protein as the burger), feeding someone for almost a year.

Do you have a citation for "cows don't use much water"?

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