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Beef, pork, chicken: the world loves cheap meat. If people knew what really goes in it, that love affair would be over | Antibiotic use in farming is now rampant and you should care about that (www.theguardian.com)
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[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yep, there is not much way around the fact that meat production and consumption must go down substantially to reduce disease risk. More intensive animal agriculture is worse for reasons like antibiotic overuse. Less intensive animal agriculture substantially raises land use which means more deforestation and more human contact with wildlife and higher disease. See the infectious disease trap of animal agriculture

The research comparing plant-based meats to animal-based meats generally has found plant-based meats to come out ahead health wise, though a whole food plant-based diet is even better

[-] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 days ago

The singular products need to be checked. If consumption of plant-based meat would increase there is a non-zero chance of usage of lesser quality ingredients or the seeking of new additives to compete and produce more while minimizing cost, and then we would be at the starting point.

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

We at least wouldn't be at the same starting point since regardless of what happens, we'd still be with much lower environmental impact, zoonetic disease risk for society at large, number of animals in factory farms, etc.

Plant-based foods have a significantly smaller footprint on the environment than animal-based foods. Even the least sustainable vegetables and cereals cause less environmental harm than the lowest impact meat and dairy products

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/8/1614/html

[-] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

this is just warmed-over poore-nemecek 2018, and suffers from all the same bad methodology

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