tomweingarten

vorig jaardiscuss

This is extremely important. Most people have a very skewed perspective on what it means to be in the global 10% or 1%. I think this paper would be much more impactful if the authors listed the calculations used for defining these groups in the Methods section. Ideally the cutoff for each group should even be in the abstract so people can understand what 1% or 10% even means.

tomweingarten

2 jaar geledendiscuss

https://alearningaday.blog/2019/06/04/joseph-heller-and-enou...

The late novelist Kurt Vonnegut informed his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history.

Heller responded – “Yes, but I have something he will never have . . . enough.”

tomweingarten

3 jaar geledendiscuss

Glad to see this finally getting the attention it deserves. With a major election coming up in the US next year, I'm frankly terrified.

tomweingarten

3 jaar geledendiscuss

Can you provide some additional citations on this?

tomweingarten

4 jaar geledendiscuss

The negative health effects of red meat are one of the few things in nutrition that we have consistent, overwhelming evidence for.

See for instance the studies linked here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_meat#:~:text=Health%20effe....

tomweingarten

4 jaar geledendiscuss

Even if this is true (and I've never been able to find credible evidence it is), what we're seeing now is just the upper bound of sustainable plant-based food production. As they scale it up and take advantage of technologies like precision fermentation, all evidence suggests this will continue to improve even further. Compare that to animal agriculture, where thermodynamic limitations on increased efficiency are strong, and most of the options to increase sustainability come at the cost of terribly inhumane practices.

tomweingarten

4 jaar geledendiscuss

If you did a blind taste test between Impossible and Beyond (or the McPlant), I suspect people would pick Impossible nine times out of ten. Writing off all plant-based meat at this point feels a bit like saying the Internet is a failure in 2002 because Yahoo is losing steam.

tomweingarten

4 jaar geledendiscuss

The seaweed diet is just the result from a single study that has yet to be widely replicated. I'd caution against putting the fate of the planet into the hands of miracle cures until the scientific process can do its thing.

Even if the seaweed diet does help, the fundamentals of thermodynamics dictate that eating animals will never come close to the efficiency of eating plants, fungi, and microorganisms. Cows, chicken, and fish spend most of their energy living (to whatever extent spending every hour of your day in a windowless cage can be called living).

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