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“We have to stop destroying the planet as we feed ourselves,” a World Bank official said, as red meat and dairy drive CO2 emissions.

Cows and milk are out, chicken and broccoli are in — if the World Bank has its way, that is.

In a new paper, the international financial lender suggests repurposing the billions rich countries spend to boost CO2-rich products like red meat and dairy for more climate-friendly options like poultry, fruits and vegetables. It's one of the most cost-effective ways to save the planet from climate change, the bank argues.

The politically touchy recommendation — sure to make certain conservatives and European countries apoplectic — is one of several suggestions the World Bank offers to cut climate-harming pollution from the agricultural and food sectors, which are responsible for nearly a third of global greenhouse gas emissions.

The paper comes at a diplomatically strategic moment, as countries signed on to the Paris Agreement — the global pact calling to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius — prepare to update their climate plans by late 2025.

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[-] [email protected] 72 points 1 week ago

I cant wait for some conservative idiot to spin this in the worst possible way. Mixed in with some lies, whataubout-isms and straw-mans for a delicious disinformation-coktail!

[-] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago

Florida has already started the "they're coming for our meat" with the lab grown meat ban if you haven't seen.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

In Europe soy milk can't legally be called milk anymore. It's Soy Drink on the packaging. The farmers won that one. Now they're coming after vegi burgers allowed to be called burgers.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

My arguments to "if it's not from an animal or isn't milk" are:

  1. What do you call the white liquid inside a coconut?
  2. What do you call the laxative/antacid that comes in a blue bottle?
[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago
  1. Coconut drink
  2. Drink of magnesia

It's just that simple!

/s

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Magnesia Julius. Just add nutmeg.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

That's coconut water. Coconut milk is made of processed meat!

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

They won't win burger or sausage or anything like that. You can already put what you want in those, breadcrumbs, vegetable protein, fruits and vegetables, various flavours and spices, and it's still a burger/sausage.

The milk I get. Milk was highly controlled in terms of what adultrants were allowed, so when they say "we can't even add extra aspartame, but they can make the whole thing out of oats?" They get a lot of traction. Now why they wanted to add aspartame I don't have a fucking clue.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/03/06/173618723/can-milk-sweetened-with-aspartame-still-be-called-milk

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

milk-like plant juices or saps have been called milk since 1200. such as milk of magnesia, milk of almond

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[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago

I agree, let's end subsidies for the industries that are fucking up the climate. Fuck all the weak snowflakes who don't want to change their meat consumption. How hard is it to not eat beef? Not hard, people are just weak. So hit them in the wallet then, if that's what it takes.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Even as a rancher (native prairie, low input) I agree beef is way too cheap. Well, it was, now it's starting to be more appropriately priced.

Considering everything from the labour involved in raising it ethically to the nutritional value, the consumer pays very little for beef for what they're getting. Even if it means people eat less beef, the price should go up. It would also favour small farmers like me who would rather raise less cows sustainably on grass than overgraze chasing high volume sales.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago

Honestly, it makes sense. Something's gotta give or we're all fucked. We should already be eating less red meat and dairy anyway since they're less healthy than white meat and milk alternatives - adding the economic incentive would be a push in the right direction to be healthier and more eco-friendly.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Beans, chickpeas and lentils are my favorite daily superfoods. So cheap, so tasty, so healthy. Meat is so far in the rearview mirror I don't even understand the concept anymore.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Care to share a favorite recipe or two? I've been meaning to step up my legume game for a minute.

Thanks in advance, but also no presh! 🤙

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Black bean tacos. Whatever you do with beef, use a can of black beans instead

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I tried putting black beans on my grill but they fell through the gaps. Help?

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

This is not my native language and I'm too lazy to translate whole recipies, so here are just a few tips:

  • Cook yellow lentils with vegetable stock to make a creamy sauce, add more stuff and seasoning to taste
  • Red lentils stay a bit harder and replace minced meat very well
  • Brown lentils with smoked tofu, leek, potatoes, celery and carrots make a great German lentil soup
  • Find a recipe for bean chili
  • Look for potato and pumpkin-curry
  • Throw lentils and chickpeas or beans into tomato sauces and see what you like. There are no rules, I put beans or lentils in every meal!
  • Make a fresh salad and toss in cold pasta and beans for a real meal
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[-] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago

may be turned into a culture war battle

May be? Bit optimistic, don't you think?

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Me "not eating pork" is already a political statement to my mom's side of the family and has been for a at least a decade. A government body recommending less beef? The horror!

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Everything should have a carbon tax. Someone once told me, "but who would pay for that tax?" Implying that we will be the ones to pay it. Thats the freaking idea.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

The rich have problems paying just their regular owed taxes, nothing even exceptional; they draft legislation to lower their own tax rates while keeping taxes on labor the same.

Why is capital gains taxed at a lower rate than income? Is sitting on a pile of money and watching it grow somehow more noble than sweating and hard work?

I think a carbon tax is necessary but I think getting the responsible parties in our industrial world to actually pay it, would be extremely difficult. You'd never see such bipartisan cooperation in various governments until someone threatens the subsidies for the liquid black gold.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

As a bonus it's much healthier. Win win. Though a large portion of the population won't see it that way.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

No subsidies for anything actively harming the environment.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Dinosaurs back on the menu boyz

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Sounds good to me, I love chicken and veggies!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Same! Well, TBH chicken often tastes gross to me (grew up with a parent that thought 'boil it in maybe-salted water' was the way to go). But there's plenty of non-beef options! Tofu, turkey, textured vegetable protein, it's all good. (TVP's great for things like sauces, where you just need the texture of ground beef, but the other flavors would drown it out anyway). Even a peanut butter and jelly sandwich makes for an easy work lunches.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Ground turkey is actually a surprisingly good ground beef substitute in a number of dishes.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We use ground turkey almost all the time over ground beef. It's great in chili, tacos, meat sauce, lasagna, etc. The only time I use ground beef anymore is when I get it free from my folks (they always support a local 4h kid and purchase part of a cow).

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Grilled, baked, and fried are all good ways to try chicken but boiled? Damn, no thanks.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

TBH chicken often tastes gross to me (grew up with a parent that thought 'boil it in maybe-salted water' was the way to go).

Funny, this is why most people hate veggies

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Crazy how enthusiastic everyone here is about some rich guy telling us what we are allowed to eat.

He probably flies private and eats a steak every day.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Meat and dairy should be way more expensive in general

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

It is it's just paid with tax dollars in many countries

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

"red meat"

What does this expression even means nowadays?

Beef should be expensive. It should return to what it was thirty or forty back: a luxury item. Nobody needs to eat a steak every day.

But is pork still - or again? - red meat? It had been disqualified as such some time back.

Bring on cheaper vegetables, please. I'm seeing cabbage peak at €2,19. Poultry is on average €2,29, peak on the €2,69. It's borderline as expensive to make a pot of quality soup than to make a roast chicken.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

The problem with that is the rich still get to enjoy it and the rich live in excess. It would make more sense although logistically nonsensical to keep the price the same but only the poorest are allowed access to it

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Why would that make any more sense?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

It wouldn't make sense because, as you've pointed out, it would be nonsensical

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

How about heavily carbon taxing the rich cunts, hmm?

You know, instead of another bullshit scheme to offset the responsibility of climate change to the majority of the population with the least control over it?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Lately it has been reversed.. Chicken prices have been more than pork.. Even on the chicken quarters I normally get. I'm hoping once lab grown is scaled that we'll be able to get steaks cheap.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Or just fight back against private jet overusage and giants like Exxon?

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