If we ate mostly plant based diets, nature would get around 75% of the planet's fertile land back. Our oceans would recover too. Simplest solution for carbon capture, natural world, climate resilience, food chain preservation & biodiversity. A massive step to a sustainable and safer future for humans.
Studies show that shifting to a plant-based food system would release fertile land the size of combining the entire United States, China, the European Union, and Australia.
There's a lot of academic blah-blah-blah to wade through at the top, but it does finally get to the point:
"The findings demonstrated that stews (or pottages) of meat (beef and mutton) and vegetables such as cabbage and leek, were the mainstay of the medieval peasant diet.
The research also showed that dairy products, likely the ‘green cheeses’ known to be eaten by the peasantry, also played an important role in their diet."
When you say sewage, are you referring to just their urine or also the compostable manure? It might not be a big thing in the UK, but in the US cow manure compost is a valuable garden and lawn fertilizer.
On a related note, a friend of mine had a chicken farm and he actually made more money selling the manure than the eggs. Go figure, huh?🤷🏻♀️
If you want to factor the impacts to sustainable food systems of milk purchase you might find this graphic useful.
If you chose to use eg oats plus water while cooking (or make your own milk) as a substitute to where you might have used container milk in the past you have further substantially reduced the packaging, storage transport etc footprint below the graphic.
It's worth noting often emissions analyses almost never include all the refrigeration. A lot of plant milks are both tasty while being shelf stable.
@ArtBear I switched to plant milks for the environment.
I stuck with it for the convenience of buying 8 at a time because the shelf life is ages, the lovely richness of oat milk on breakfast cereal, and the cheapness of the cheapest soya milk for tea and cooking.
This is possibly the craziest thing people don't know about healthy plantbased diets. It's revolutionary, easily reproducible in clinical trials, and yet almost nobody knows about it.
Take any 100 omnivores.
Draw their blood and measure how well it fights various cancer cells.
Put them 2 weeks on a #plantbased diet (whole foods plant based type diet #wfpb ). Draw their blood and measure again their cancer cell killing ability.
Same people, but now their blood typically fights cancer around 10 times more effectively on average.
Then let those people return to their everyday diet and their blood drops back to regular 10 times less effective at fighting cancer.
So that cancer you don't know about, that could be a massive problem for you in 3.5 years? Maybe it never would be, maybe it would take another 35years, on a plantbased diet.
@ArtBear I hate to say it but that it not terribly useful. ‘Cancer’ is not a single disease with multiple causes and effects. ‘A blood test’ to identify resistance really is not there at the moment.
No medical team has ever reversed heart disease. Slowed it down with drugs sure, some temporary plumbing work arounds like bypasses yes sure, but no reversals.
Apart, of course, from all the medical teams who succeed by prescribing whole food plant based eating and routinely put CVD & atherosclerosis in to reverse in thousands of patients yearly, and they have the CT scans, angiograms etc to show it.
Late 90s, early 00s, we had incontravertible proof. We can actually reverse #heartDisease, #CVD. Not attempt bypass, or slow progression with drugs, but actually restore artery function, reverse the disease.
25years on, very few of us are exposed to this information to make fully informed choices.
Things huge food & media corporations will commonly say.
If you're worried about carcinogens from eating our expensive & highly profitable animal products, why not eat lots of our expensive and highly profitable berry products for anti-oxidants.
Things huge food & media corporations will NOT commonly say.
Eating affordable & not highly profitable beans & especially lentils gives you far more anti-oxidents than berries. Use them to replace eating animal products & it's a double win.
@wfpb@vegan@plantbased
There are now 20 times more cattle being raised today than the entire earth's wild biosphere of every type of mammal. From mice to elephants.
This radical shift in the recent decades is essentially is the story of 30% of humanity being marketed over the last 80 years in to regarding all those profitable but bad for us bacon double cheeseburgers etc as indispensable & some sort of god given right that our entire identity (manhood/personhood) hinges on.
This is also the story of that 30% of humanity developing so many chronic conditions and buying the drugs and hospital procedures to deal with the effects of that eating style of course.
Fishing gear accounts for approximately 70% of plastics more than 20cm in size that float on the surface, and 86% of plastic waste on the seafloor.
The fishing industry is filling the oceans with plastic. Plastic straws was a red herring.
The uncomfortable part most people won't say is.... who's buying all that fish, who's creating the demand? We are. It's us. Maybe we should cut back, let our oceans recover?
@failedLyndonLaRouchite@vegan@plantbased
The basis of science is when we discover new data, we have to modify our position. Even when we don't like the data. Even if the data supports health benefits from a lifestyle we might not practice, like healthy #vegan eating.
8 times more more effective blood at killing prostate cancer cells on a #wfpb protocol.
Reversal of prostate cancer growth in patients under a WFPB protocol.
Blood that barely impacted breast cancer cells became blood that wiped out breast cancer cell samples on a WFPB #plantbased protocol.
etc. etc.
@failedLyndonLaRouchite@vegan@plantbased
You are sounding like you need the data I've provided to not be true. Hence you want to quibble about figures for #wfpb eating protocols. Like is it 6 times better, or 8 times better etc. It's better is the point.
Exact figures will always depend on the individual, the before diet, the protocol diet, and the cancers in question. The data supports wfpb being better, far far better.
If you want me to throw out 15years of in depth nutrition research in favour of your position you have to bring more to the table than calling my position bullshit and saying you spent a few minutes on pub med.
If you bring me some studies showing people on a healthy #wfpb diet had their blood drawn and tested for efficacy in vitro against cancer cells, then they were moved to a Standard Americanised Diet, blood drawn again and the S.A.D. diet gave them massively enhanced cancer cell fighting blood, which returned to baseline after going back to #wfpb - then that would be something to balance your position with some credible data.
@ArtBear@failedLyndonLaRouchite@vegan@plantbased There is no way to contest the statement that whole food plant based diets slow aging, increase disease resistance, and lessen environmental impact. The supporting data is overwhelming.
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