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Reduce your meat intake. It's bad all around, except maybe for taste (but you lose on variety). These soybeans are probably used to feed cattle.
by MayeulC 5y ago
Reduce your meat intake. It's bad all around, except maybe for taste (but you lose on variety).
These soybeans are probably used to feed cattle.
- adflux 5y ago>It's bad all around Even experts don't have a consensus on this... If your source is the game changers documentary on Netflix, it may seem like this.
- MayeulC 5y agoI have not heard of that documentary. For one, it's pretty bad for the environment. I hope you can agree with me that there is a consensus on this. From land use to transportation, to every other part of the supply chain (antibiotics, methane emissions, manure). Downsizing the meat industry would do quite a bit for the environment. Secondly, meat is more expensive than plant-based products, generally. It also spoils faster, and I wouldn't eat spoiled meat, as opposed to spoiled vegetables. Quality control is way more important as to avoid parasites, prions, etc. Let's skip animal suffering. I suppose you are getting to the last point, health benefits? I have little data on this myself, and health comes from such a maze of interactions that I don't find it surprising experts disagree, especially if you throw in various lobbies. Moreover, the answer likely depends on a person's ethnicity. However, there seems to be plenty of evidence that (a) excessive meat (or rich foods) intake is bad for your health, (b) eating a variety of products is better, (c) eating some meat, or substitutes, is required for a healthy diet. The uncertainty seems to be on what exactly constitutes "too much" meat. I don't think "all around" was meant to encompass anything else; are you thinking of something else specifically?