Plant-based meats, which once seemed destined to help us reduce our consumption of slaughtered cows and lower the vast ecological damage that the beef industry is inflicting on our planet, seems to have failed. Beyond Meat, which is the only …
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Technology Is Constantly Improving–What This Means
There are many reasons that it’s a mistake to invest in Big Oil, morality being chief among them. Another, however is practical. The only possible course for the world of transportation is the elimination of gasoline and diesel, as EV …
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Meat Wars
As anyone could have predicted, the meat industry (through its innocuous-sounding front group “Center for Consumer Freedom”), spend $5 million on a Super Bowl ad in an attempt to dissuade viewers from trying The Impossible Burger or Beyond Meat. What …
Consumption of Plant-Based Meat Going Through the Roof
From this article: Sales of plant-based versions of wings, burgers, and meatballs have risen by double digits over the past year — and sales of plant-based Italian sausage have skyrocketed by 416 percent.
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Sustainable, Plant-Based Meat Is a Hit
Question: Burger King now offers the plant-based Impossible Burger, and, according to the cashiers in the one closest to “2GreenEnergy headquarters,” it’s outselling everything else on the menu. How many BK outlets would you guess there are? In response, one supposes, …
Plant-based Meat Options
A reader who is battling prostate cancer writes: Here is an article on primate diets, showing that our human ancestors were nearly all vegetarians.
Beyond Meat: Going Easy on the Earth
Here’s a short video on a recent study at Oxford University that began as an exploration of sustainable meat and dairy, but wound up concluding that there is no such thing.
Diamonds Are Forever, But Cows Aren’t
If you’re going to kill cows for beef, there probably isn’t a huge ethical issue with using their hides for leather shoes, car seats, furniture, or whatever. But what happens when the consumption of beef falls precipitously? This is almost …
