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A sustainable diet leaves room for two chicken breasts a week, study says (phys.org)

submitted 1 day ago by RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works to c/climate@slrpnk.net

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255 grams per week. That's the short answer to how much meat you can eat without harming the planet. And that only applies to poultry and pork.

Beef cannot be eaten in meaningful quantities without exceeding planetary boundaries, according to an article published by a group of DTU researchers in the journal Nature Food. So says Caroline H. Gebara, postdoc at DTU Sustain and lead author of the study."

Our calculations show that even moderate amounts of red meat in one's diet are incompatible with what the planet can regenerate of resources based on the environmental factors we looked at in the study. However, there are many other diets—including ones with meat—that are both healthy and sustainable," she says.

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[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Well, beef is already so damn expensive that I can't remember the last time we bought it.

Meat-wise It's just been a steady cycle of chicken, turkey, and pork at our house

I had no idea we were so environmentally avant-garde

[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago

You're not avantgarde. Veganism is a thing.

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

Good on you!

When my wife and I started being conscious about our food intake, it wasn't too bad to give up red meat, and shrink meat portions / add veggies.

It took us months of learning / trying new recipes to actually get to the point where we were consistently eating fewer than 14 meat-centric meals a week (lunch/dinner). Once we got comfortable cooking plant based dishes though, we had built up so much momentum that we went from 1 or 2 plant based meals a week to 100% in just a few weeks.

It takes a long time to build up that comfort level, but at some point a switch just flips and the new "normal" is just as easy as what you were used to.

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[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

Dry ass nasty chicken breast. I'd rather some veggies, but it this allows BP to keep pumping oil into the Gulf then I guess it's fine.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What about people that don't eat pork?

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I guess you can have 255 grams of poultry

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Or veggies. Veggies are always nice.

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[–] bouh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

It's funny to think that you need communism for this kind of figure to mean anything.

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