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> eating less food You can't significantly reduce food intake, but switching to a plant-based diet is more beneficial than many other changes.
by goodpoint 4y ago
> eating less food
You can't significantly reduce food intake, but switching to a plant-based diet is more beneficial than many other changes.
- endisneigh 4y agothere's plenty of obesity and plenty of food waste, implying there's much you can do without changing the type of food you eat.
- Majestic121 4y agoThe fact that there's plenty to do does not mean the ratio effort/impact on the environment is worth it. Switching to a plant based diet is almost equivalent to eating half as much of an omnivorous diet : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-06466-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-06466-8 However, dividing omnivorous food intake by two would probably not be possible in the long term, unless your diet is way oversized. And it's easier to switch to a plant based diet than to be constantly hungry. Reducing environmental impact is a marathon, not a sprint : it s much better to take actions that can be sustained in the long term than very impressive actions that are marginally more effective, but abandoned after 2 month
- endisneigh 4y agono one is talking about being hungry. I'm talking about reducing food waste and eating less in light of the massive obesity endemic. eating plant based can be a part of that, sure, but isn't directly related to my point.
- goodpoint 4y ago> Switching to a plant based diet is almost equivalent to eating half as much of an omnivorous diet : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-06466-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-06466-8 The improvement is way bigger than that for most meat-intensive (e.g. American) diets. See https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food