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Like some good plant-based stuff?
Whole foods wise: I love any legume beans, lentil, hummus, tofu, tempeh, edamame, nuts etc.
Pre-made product or recipe wise: I’m a big fan of oat milk, basically any Nora Cooks recipe ever, Beyond Sausage, plant-based Babybell (if you have any nostalgia for that), Fable Meaty Pulled Mushrooms (easier to get outside the US, though can somewhat order online in US or get at restaurants), etc.
There’s even some communities on here with some good recipes and such too
Ah like replace everything with just Fox News saying that, I follow now
Not sure I completely follow what you’re trying to say?
True of more than just the US, but for some number on the US:
The Department of Agriculture has spent almost $50 billion in subsidies for livestock operators since 1995, according to an EWG analysis.
By contrast, since 2018 the USDA has spent less than $30 million to support plant-based and other alternative proteins that may produce fewer greenhouse gases and may require less land than livestock.
For some global figures
Almost 90% of the $540bn in global subsidies given to farmers every year are “harmful”, a startling UN report has found
[…]
The biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions, such as beef and milk, received the biggest subsidies, the report said. These are often produced by large industrialised groups that are best placed to gain access to subsidies.
It is worth also mentioning that despite these heavy subsidy differences, whole-food plant-based diets still end up generally being cheaper overall in most developed countries, unlike what you might think
It found that in high-income countries:
• Vegan diets were the most affordable and reduced food costs by up to one third.
• Vegetarian diets were a close second.
• Flexitarian diets with low amounts of meat and dairy reduced costs by 14%.
• By contrast, pescatarian diets increased costs by up to 2%.
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-11-11-sustainable-eating-cheaper-and-healthier-oxford-study
Based on primary data (n = 1040) collected through an online survey, representative of the Portuguese population, through logistic regressions, it was possible to conclude that plant-based consumers, particularly vegan, are associated with lower food expenditures compared to omnivorous consumers. In fact, plant-based consumers are shown to spend less than all other consumers assessed
https://agrifoodecon.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40100-022-00224-9
3·7 天前If you want to make the arithmetic faster for any number, (n+1)*n / 2 is the closed form expression for summing the (whole) numbers 1 to n
So (8+1)*8/2 = 36 in this case
Yeah this is good context to put, I’m going to copy that to the text body because I’ve definitely seen people mistakenly think they aren’t eating processed meats when they are
I get that this is more tongue and cheek, but for some perspective it’s around ~21% of US adults that are functionally illiterate (in English) from 2024 stats
3·8 天前Fertilizer prices going up aren’t going to cause that dramatic of an effect. What we’re looking at isn’t unprecedented since a lot of fertilizer is still made elsewhere from other sources
The fertilizer production decrease is not as bad as you are suggesting. Fertilizer prices are up, but not at an unprecedented level. Fertilizer production is not that dramatically centralized as to have no supply left, just less
17·8 天前The technology for renewables is not the main limiting factor anymore. In recent years the economics have changed. Renewables are the cheapest form of power today and dominate (90-almost 100%) new global energy capacity because it’s so cheap. Grid scale batteries have become viable and are starting to be a significant portion of grid power in many countries
A number of countries did speed up their roll out of renewables because of that, though
The amount of oil supply removed is significantly larger this time. With the war in Ukraine there were also some more obvious places to get oil from instead. It’s less obvious this time
The left absolutely does not dominate narratives on environmental issues in media outlets. The right wing narratives are taken at face value and amplified despite being objectively false.
Media outlets are publishing articles today that are still talking about renewables as if they were more expensive than fossil fuels. Solar has been cheapest form of power per kWh for years now around the world
The media is tiled to the right. The right complains because that’s never enough for them
One thing that would at least help is applying antitrust laws and breaking up said companies. Their size and consolidation alone is a decent chunk of the issue, though that still leaves more to be desired
There is a silver lining to this, it’s going to push everyone to do the things we should have already been doing for climate change at a much faster pace
Renewable energy, especially solar, in recent years as already become the cheapest form of power per kWh. It’s made up 90+% of global new electricity capacity in the last year. New instillation will likely go even further. The war in Ukraine already helped ramp up renewables in many countries and the oil supply shock here is far higher than that.
This doesn’t have to come solely from the top down either. Besides the roof-top solar setups you think of, plug in solar is becoming available in more locations which also allows it to exist for apartments, renters, or just someone who wants a smaller but plug and play install. Outside the US, it’s already a thing in Germany, Austria, France, Lithuania, etc. More states in the US have been looking at approving plug in solar which makes small setups easy to install and possible on balconies. Utah has approved it a few years ago, Vermont just approved it earlier this year, Virginia seems set to do so.
It’s also going to lead towards more electrification. From last week
Induction stove sales on Amazon India have jumped more than 30-fold, while rice cookers and electric pressure cookers are up fourfold, a company spokesperson said.
Kitchen appliances maker TTK Prestige (TTKL.NS), opens new tab said demand for induction stoves had surged far beyond supply.
“There is a threefold surge (in demand),” CEO Venkatesh Vijayaraghavan told Reuters.
https://youtu.be/bAF35dekiAY?t=74 for this being acted out
Not a member or anything, but there’s some stuff like that on Lemmy
Plus some recipe websites are really good like Nora Cooks
3·8 天前Don’t see a paywall on my end, but https://archive.is/VKgxt should work
Another cool fun fact is that plants are not bugs