• pizzaiolo@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    Dr. Scarborough said while critiques of plant-based diets often highlighted environmental effects of select vegan foods, such as the volume of water required to produce almond-milk, the new research showed that plant-based diets had far less of an environmental toll than animal-based ones, regardless of how the food was produced.

    Meat eaters love to point to almonds, forgetting dairy is even worse in terms of water footprint

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      1 year ago

      It’s all ‘whataboutism’ without ever looking inward. I remember when Impossible and Beyond meat started becoming readily available and I read a news article that discussed how healthy they were. Their conclusion that was they were safe and healthy in moderation, but you shouldn’t eat them every day…like, yeah, you shouldn’t eat a fucking hamburger daily either, what’s your point?

      They just have to plant the tiniest seed of doubt for many consumers who will never compare the two and only want a reason to justify their consumption.