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My friend’s brother once told me we humans must eat meat because of the shape of our teeth, which he claimed are good for biting and chewing meat. I replied that we use our brains to make decisions about what to eat and teeth don’t make decisions. Is it true … [continued]
There is a plant-based form of food that is packed with protein, though it’s probably not well known in the mainstream. It is called TVP, textured vegetable protein, or sometimes textured soy protein. There is a restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area which has been around for decades that … [continued]
After writing about how high in carbon beef is and some of its other problems, it seemed logical to consider what other animal-based foods are also high carbon. There are many, including one of the highest-carbon, which is lamb. Lambs and mature sheep are ruminant animals that emit methane, a … [continued]
Tyson Foods — that enormous industrial beef consortium — has found itself the object of a consumer-protection lawsuit that alleges the company was disingenuous in its communication to consumers about its efforts and progress to curb greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. What’s at issue are claims in marketing materials like suggesting … [continued]
An innovative Danish startup has developed a solution to the serious problem of methane emissions from belching, farting cows, using a farm in Indiana as a test site.
An innovative Danish startup has developed a solution to the serious problem of methane emissions from belching, farting cows, using a farm in Indiana as a test site.
Green hydrogen could play a key role in the future of lab-grown meat and a new generation of cultivated protein foods (photo courtesy of Agronomics).
Green hydrogen could play a key role in the future of lab-grown meat, along with a whole new generation of cultivated proteins.
Meat production, particularly beef, has an outsized impact on the environment. The marketing playbook used by the meat industry is a lot like the one deployed by the tobacco and alcohol industries in the last decades to hide meat’s detrimental effects.
There are plenty of great vegan restaurants worldwide, and many that have been operating for a long time, so you might be asking why you should care that another restaurant has joined the right side of history. Well, in case you are not aware, Eleven Madison Park is the New … [continued]
The documentary Sacred Cow was released in January 2021 and explores the ways that ruminants (cows) and well-raised meat can play an important role in solving our climate crisis (I’ll be interviewing director Diana Rodgers on a grasslands webinar in March). The film’s central argument is that the real threat … [continued]
The Texas Observer reports that fecal dust is choking the communities living in the Texas Panhandle, and the state’s regulatory agency isn’t helping the issue. The Texas Panhandle produces a fifth of the U.S. beef supply.
