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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3994203" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p><strong>Q: How is our current diet harming the environment?</strong></p><p><strong>A:</strong> In every way possible. The way we produce food is having a devastating impact on the environment. Its effect on climate change has gotten the most attention, and for good reason. It’s very much threatening the future of the world that our children and our grandchildren will experience.</p><p></p><p>What’s really worrisome is that the changes are accelerating in ways that were not predicted, and we seem to be reaching tipping points where the consequences accelerate climate change.</p><p></p><p><strong>Q: And the damage goes beyond climate change?</strong></p><p><strong>A:</strong> Yes. For example, the nitrogen and phosphorus runoff from fertilizer is contributing to pollution and dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere. Those areas—where oxygen levels are so low that animals die off—will affect our ability to produce food in the future. Clearing land to grow food for animals is destroying forests and pasturelands, which is leading species to become extinct at a rate that is unprecedented during human existence. And our food system is diminishing the availability of fresh water in many places.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Q: What did the EAT-Lancet commission do?</strong></p><p><strong>A:</strong> Our goal was to find a healthy and sustainable diet that could feed close to 10 billion people. When you look at the big picture—what we’re doing now and where it’s headed—the problem is so daunting that it’s almost paralyzing. So we broke it down into several steps.</p><p></p><p>The first was to define a healthy diet. Fortunately, we have a lot more data than we did even 20 or 30 years ago. That healthy diet would have relatively low amounts of red meat and other animal foods and lots of fruits and vegetables, along with whole grains and healthier fats. But it has quite a bit of flexibility, so we call it a flexitarian diet. You could also call it a plant-forward or a planetary health diet.</p><p></p><p><strong>Q: Why so little beef?</strong></p><p><strong>A:</strong> Cattle have rumens—stomachs where food is slowly digested by fermentation. A lot of methane is produced during the digestive process in the rumen that essentially is expelled as burps or farts.</p><p></p><p><strong>Q: And methane is a potent greenhouse gas?</strong></p><p><strong>A:</strong> Yes. Also, cattle live longer than chickens. They take about 1 to 1½ years to come to market if they’re grain fed—or 2 to 2½ years if they’re grass fed—and every day that they’re alive, they’re emitting methane and breathing out carbon dioxide.</p><p></p><p>We simply cannot eat the amounts of beef that we’re now consuming and still have a future for our grandchildren.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><strong>Meat ‘n Heat</strong></strong></span></p><p><img src="https://www.nutritionaction.com/wp-content/uploads/meatNHeat_graph_600pxtall.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><strong>Q: How about fish?</strong></p><p><strong>A:</strong> We can’t increase our catch of wild fish. We’re overfishing as it is.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.nutritionaction.com/daily/what-to-eat/the-grandparents-diet/" target="_blank">The "Grandparents' Diet" - Nutrition Action</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3994203, member: 56035"] [B]Q: How is our current diet harming the environment? A:[/B] In every way possible. The way we produce food is having a devastating impact on the environment. Its effect on climate change has gotten the most attention, and for good reason. It’s very much threatening the future of the world that our children and our grandchildren will experience. What’s really worrisome is that the changes are accelerating in ways that were not predicted, and we seem to be reaching tipping points where the consequences accelerate climate change. [B]Q: And the damage goes beyond climate change? A:[/B] Yes. For example, the nitrogen and phosphorus runoff from fertilizer is contributing to pollution and dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere. Those areas—where oxygen levels are so low that animals die off—will affect our ability to produce food in the future. Clearing land to grow food for animals is destroying forests and pasturelands, which is leading species to become extinct at a rate that is unprecedented during human existence. And our food system is diminishing the availability of fresh water in many places. [B]Q: What did the EAT-Lancet commission do? A:[/B] Our goal was to find a healthy and sustainable diet that could feed close to 10 billion people. When you look at the big picture—what we’re doing now and where it’s headed—the problem is so daunting that it’s almost paralyzing. So we broke it down into several steps. The first was to define a healthy diet. Fortunately, we have a lot more data than we did even 20 or 30 years ago. That healthy diet would have relatively low amounts of red meat and other animal foods and lots of fruits and vegetables, along with whole grains and healthier fats. But it has quite a bit of flexibility, so we call it a flexitarian diet. You could also call it a plant-forward or a planetary health diet. [B]Q: Why so little beef? A:[/B] Cattle have rumens—stomachs where food is slowly digested by fermentation. A lot of methane is produced during the digestive process in the rumen that essentially is expelled as burps or farts. [B]Q: And methane is a potent greenhouse gas? A:[/B] Yes. Also, cattle live longer than chickens. They take about 1 to 1½ years to come to market if they’re grain fed—or 2 to 2½ years if they’re grass fed—and every day that they’re alive, they’re emitting methane and breathing out carbon dioxide. We simply cannot eat the amounts of beef that we’re now consuming and still have a future for our grandchildren. [SIZE=4][B][B]Meat ‘n Heat[/B][/B][/SIZE] [IMG]https://www.nutritionaction.com/wp-content/uploads/meatNHeat_graph_600pxtall.jpg[/IMG] [B]Q: How about fish? A:[/B] We can’t increase our catch of wild fish. We’re overfishing as it is. [URL="https://www.nutritionaction.com/daily/what-to-eat/the-grandparents-diet/"]The "Grandparents' Diet" - Nutrition Action[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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