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(Implied) invalid generalization, or confirmation bias. This is a good reason to not eat that particular meat. In general, however, meat is an S-tier source of
by kriops 1y ago
(Implied) invalid generalization, or confirmation bias. This is a good reason to not eat that particular meat. In general, however, meat is an S-tier source of nutrition, vitamins, and minerals.
- burnt-resistor 1y ago[flagged]
- dang 1y agoYou've been breaking the site guidelines egregiously in many different threads. If you keep this up, we're going to ban you. I don't want to ban you because you've also posted good things, but we badly need you to fix this. We've already asked you once (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44751806 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44751806). If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
- progbits 1y agoHow can something which is horribly inefficient for environment (water use, land use, greenhouse emissions from fertilizer) possibly be S tier?
- VladVladikoff 1y agoBiodiverse farms with animals and plants, rotating crop fields, are far more ecologically friendly than pure plant farms.
- kriops 1y agoWhat a weird question, if it was at all genuine. Not only is it not inefficient but, e.g., cows are absolutely unique and amazing for their ability to digest, e.g., grass into something that is highly nutritiously desirable for humans.
- progbits 1y agohttps://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets What you say is maybe true but irrelevant. We don't have to grow grass.
- HDThoreaun 1y agoCrappy grass is the only thing that grows in the upper plains because there isnt any water.
- kriops 1y agoAsserting ruminants are “irrelevant” tells me nobody should take you seriously on this topic. Replicating their function is the problem to solve if you ever want to make the case you think you are making.
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- jaian 1y agoBecause that's not what we are talking about.
- tomxor 1y agoMeat especially grass fed beef, is not just protein, it's an incredibly dense source of nutritients. You have to eat far higher quantities and ranges of plant based alternatives to acquire the same nutritional value, and they are usually less bioavailable. So from the perspective of the person consuming it, it's very efficient source of nutrients, and also the most satiating food you can eat, so you won't feel the urge to overeat. Abstractly, using land for crops is around an order of magnitude more efficient when considering only calories per unit area, but when considering the total system i.e the humans consuming it, there's an argument to be had that more livestock could be more efficient when considering all the side effects of a huge population of malnourished humans overeating refined hyper-paletable carbs. For either side of this argument, the real issue is industrial agriculture producing both crops and livestock in unsustainable and nutritionally devoid ways, that are incredibly bad for the environment and humans consuming it.
- Pxtl 1y agoFood that eats food isn't ever gonna be good thermodynamics.
- jolmg 1y agoCalories isn't the only thing that's needed from food.