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For those who are concerned about the issue, one good step is change your diet to whole plants diet + wild caught fish (e.g. salmon). Livestock meat, esp. red m
by mtw 10y ago
For those who are concerned about the issue, one good step is change your diet to whole plants diet + wild caught fish (e.g. salmon). Livestock meat, esp. red meat and processed meat have adverse health effects, esp. north america
- dcosson 10y agoSource needed. But seriously, antibiotic resistance is a population-wide problem and you personally not eating meat won't protect you against antibiotic resistant bacteria. Not to mention the idea that red meat specifically causes adverse health effects in most people is an old idea that modern nutrition studies have mostly not shown to be true.
- sulam 10y agoYou've misunderstood the parent post. By embracing non-polluting alternatives, you promote and induce market growth along environmentally healthy lines and deny resources to unhealthy options. This may not protect you immediately, but over time it can absolutely work provided a sufficiently large group is able to act collectively. There is plenty of evidence that this approach has worked in other domains to create behavioral changes in large, impersonal organizations.
- JohnJamesRambo 10y agoDo you really think there is enough wild caught salmon to feed us all? We have to have solutions that scale and really work.
- benjaminjackman 10y agoOk so what he said less salmon i.e. Plants only then.
- dcosson 10y agoMaybe I did misunderstand. In that case I would think that buying locally raised, organic, grass-fed beef would be a more comparable alternative than wild salmon (Though neither is sustainable enough to replace the current levels of beef consumption for everyone).
- cxseven 10y agoWhen it's wild-caught, make sure it's sustainably harvested. Alaskan fish is actually great in this regard. (Go figure one of their biggest industries is OK with government regulation.)
- Fomite 10y agoAlso it still needs to be cooked. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/01/13/researchers-identify-japanese-tapeworm-parasite-in-alaskan-caught-salmon/?utm_term=.cb4ddf9447ae https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/01/1...
- Fomite 10y agoIronically, the largest source of food-borne illness in the United States is produce.