95% of Americans don't get the minimum recommended amount of fiber
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How Eligible Voters Who Don't Vote Could Instead Determine the US Election [OC]
This would be true if the foods weren’t so extremely far apart in terms of efficiency. The least efficient legumes are still much more efficient than the most efficient beef, per gram of protein. Please see table one in the largest meta study ever done on the topic below, constituting 38,700 farms and 90% global calories consumed (also included in the documentary): globalsalmoninitiative.org/…/Reducing-food’s-envi…
I used to be uninterested in foods like broccoli, apples, oranges, and blueberries, but after a transition period I love them and have them every day. I’d like to hear anyone’s story who’s also been able to integrate more of these foods.
YSK to lose weight, fill up with foods low in caloric density and high in fiber, like fruits and vegetables. This can trigger satiety without the overload of calories and beats going hungry long term.
YSK to lose weight, fill up with foods low in caloric density and high in fiber, like fruits and vegetables. This can trigger satiety without the overload of calories and beats going hungry long term. - Lemmy.World
Why YSK: many countries [https://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and-overweight] have issues with weight, such as mine with 74% [https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.htm] of US adults being overweight or obese. The global weight loss industry is over $200 billion [https://wifitalents.com/statistic/weight-loss-industry/] yearly, with many influencers, pills, and surgeries promising quick results with little effort. These often come with side effects, or don’t work long term. Studies suggest filling yourself with foods low in caloric density and high in fiber, like fruits [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19413705/] and vegetables [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6266069/], can help reach and maintain a healthy weight. It’s good to have these foods available in our living spaces to make the choice easy. Your taste buds will likely adapt [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002916523120995] to love them if you’re not there yet.
I would agree with you if the metrics were even close. Beef being like 100 times less efficient than legumes in many metrics makes it absolutely clear it’s better to grow legumes than beef, regardless if people want to consider, say, leather as a waste product.
You’ve got this! There are a ton of benefits to going plant-based. Dominion is a great documentary to show how most (~90%) are treated, which emphasizes the importance for us to shift away (it doesn’t sound like the way you did it was as bad as this, but this is the info that made me swap away recently).
Global Farmed & Factory Farmed Animals Estimates
What percentage of animals are factory farmed around the world? We estimate that over 90% of farmed animals globally are living in factory farms at present. This includes an estimated 74% of farmed land animals and virtually all farmed fish. However, there is substantial uncertainty in these figures given the land animal estimates’ heavy reliance on information from Worldwatch Institute with unclear methodology and limited data on fish farming. In total, we estimate that around 31.0 billion land animals and 38.8 to 215.9 billion fish are being farmed globally at any given time.
I’m vegan btw. The meme is making fun of people who eat for taste pleasure and not any other type :)
Note that an estimated 90% of global farm animals are factory farmed, and are fed monocrops like corn and soy that humans can eat. It’s about 10 times more efficient to eat the plants directly than the animals due to Trophic Levels, so if you’re worried about plants feeling pain you’d reduce their pain by eating them directly instead of their inefficient middlemen.
Global Farmed & Factory Farmed Animals Estimates
What percentage of animals are factory farmed around the world? We estimate that over 90% of farmed animals globally are living in factory farms at present. This includes an estimated 74% of farmed land animals and virtually all farmed fish. However, there is substantial uncertainty in these figures given the land animal estimates’ heavy reliance on information from Worldwatch Institute with unclear methodology and limited data on fish farming. In total, we estimate that around 31.0 billion land animals and 38.8 to 215.9 billion fish are being farmed globally at any given time.