Overweight Houstonians seeing great results from flexitarian diets

Senator · May 11, 2019

Great for those who can't have a 100% withdrawal from meat. It's reducing meat consumption to a small part of your plate and not having meat daily. I follow it as I eat meat twice a week from grass fed sources and maintain a good weight as opposed to feedlot meat which leads to being diabetic, fat, reliant on health care, cancer etc.

According to a University of Oxford study, if everybody cut meat and dairy from their diet there could be…

A 49 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from food production. (The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations claims that livestock is responsible for a whopping 14.5 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.)

A 76 per cent reduction in land used for food production (67 percent of deforestation for agriculture, which causes carbon to be released into the atmosphere, is driven by the need for land for animal feed and pasture.)

A 49 per cent reduction in eutrophication, where nutrients from fertilisers run into lakes and rivers, damaging ecosystems and reducing biodiversity.

A 19 per cent reduction in fresh water withdrawals weighted by local water scarcity. Water production, which includes extraction, transportation and filtration, is energy intensive.

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Research analysis by Oxford University scientist Joseph Poore shows that if every family in the UK swapped a red meat meal to a plant-based meal just once a week, the environmental impact would be the same as taking 16 million cars off the road. This is not surprising, considering world meat production was expected to hit a record high of 335 million tonnes in 2018 – more than double the 155 million tonnes produced in 1985.

Other potential environmental benefits of a flexitarian diet include:

Research published in the science journal Nature reports that, compared to baseline projections for 2050, moving to a more plant-based flexitarian diet could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 52 per cent.

If everyone ate less meat it would reduce or eliminate the need for intensive animal farming, which has a high impact on the environment. Some low-impact, more sustainably produced meat can create less greenhouse gas than coffee or cocoa beans produced as a result of deforestation.

Cattle farming could actually help to reduce soil erosion and carbon emissions. It is thought that cow dung, when spread across fields (abiding by Defra’s rules), adds nutrients and microbes to soil and locks in carbon, therefore reducing the need for additional fertilisers. When you consider that there is three times more carbon in the soil than in the atmosphere, this could make a big difference.

It is likely to be a sustainable, long-term choice for more people.

There are other ways to reduce the impact of your diet on the environment, including reducing the amount of food you waste, considering where your food has come from and how far it has travelled to get to your plate, or how many chemicals have been used to produce it.

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https://www.bbc.com/food/diets/vegan_vs_flexitarian

Rocket River · May 11, 2019

Interesting

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Roscoe Arbuckle · May 12, 2019

This isn't an ad site, jackass.

snowconeman22 · May 12, 2019

Roscoe Arbuckle said: ↑

This isn't an ad site, jackass.
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Hey man , maybe he got a vegan girlfriend

apollo33 · May 12, 2019

I've recently switched to eating seafood as my main source of protein. Feels better actually, not sure if it's placebo or not

Roscoe Arbuckle · May 12, 2019

snowconeman22 said: ↑

Hey man , maybe he got a vegan girlfriend
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Mmhmm...

Xerobull · May 13, 2019

BBC.com? I ain't clicking that.

Asian Sensation · May 13, 2019

Overweight Houstonians seeing great results from flexitarian diets. Where dey at doe?

Jugdish · May 13, 2019

Roscoe Arbuckle said: ↑

This isn't an ad site, jackass.
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That's right, it's middle-aged Facebook!

Ubiquitin · May 13, 2019

Jugdish said: ↑

That's right, it's middle-aged Facebook!
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It’s a BBS.

LosPollosHermanos · May 13, 2019

we eat way too much meat today. From a health standpoint it's already a negative, but I think we can survive by not having any snack or meal we eat by being meat based. Again I'm not saying we should cut it all out, but we are in the excess category.

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