Processed Foods Are TERRIBLE For The Environment

What is the environmental cost of processed foods? No one will study the issue, and instead they blame meat on all sorts of environmental issues.

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Anthony Stine
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[benjaminmcvay]

Anything that falls under the umbrella of “ultra processed food” should never have been produced in the first place, much less consumed.

[sharkair]

If you highly restrict carbohydrate it is no longer necessary to eat 3 times a day or more. it's pretty easy to go 24 hours with out eating. that has to be good for the environment.

[nope]

Hey, thanks for taking my question about junk food being bad for the environment! Without researching it, I suspected that there wasn't much raw data on the specific numbers regarding just how much of an impact junk food (processed foods) plays. The "powers that shouldn't be" don't want these numbers leaked out! I hope one day someone will leak these numbers out into the matrix for us. So remember folks, the next time a vegan or whoever tries to "win" the debate by saying cows or whatever are bad for the environment as they drink their soy latte from Star UpChucks, ask them their thoughts on why ultra processed foods are NEVER considered on the environmental impact. I suspect the whole "meat" is bad for the environment argument is just a distraction from the MAJOR culprit which is junk food like soy, palm, margarine and all those over-packaged ready to eat snacks and meals. Hypocrisy abounds! We carnivores need to control this narrative by pointing out the true boogie man food group which is junk foods and ultra processed garbage foods.

[leonardhedlund]

Excellent points. I would like to see more grass fed grass finished beef on the market.

[goldlizard]

The reason cattle are transported large distances at least where I live is because of the centralization of the abattoirs. Local areas use to have their own abattoirs and yes animals still need to be transported but not the distances they are now.

[MarkSmith-jspu]

I can’t fill a tall kitchen trash bag in a week. (Single man). Mostly cellophane and foam trays from meat. Recycle the rest.

[SimplySheilaB]

This is what I’ve been saying, shop local, farm fresh locally sourced and raised food. No factory food, no food that has flown thousands of miles. Eat real food not frankenfood. 🍖 🥩

[CandycaneBeyond]

This is what I find funny, they want to limit meat, but how much energy and carbon does it take to make a candy bar and gum? Soda has no nutritional value, how about closing those factories? They want to limit OUR carbon credits, our vacations, our travel how about spending some time on what's really important and make some hard choices. Do we really need all the bobble heads and new decor in our home? We could easily spend 10 years reselling and trading what actually exists.

[Sugar-Foot]

"are processed foods bad? our sponsors say NO"

[LouCadle]

Grain/soy farming causes a lot of environmental problems too: topsoil depletion (if they till the soil, and most still do), dependency on processed petroleum products for fertilizer and pest control, as you say, ruination of wetlands to create the fields, deforestation, killing of thousands of innocent small animals/birds every year. Algae blooms in the ocean come from runoff from grain agriculture. Salinizing soil is an issue in California. Vegans who think that their food doesn't have blood on it, conceptually and literally, have clearly never been on a farm. Tractors tear the heads off baby bunnies all the time! Young urbanites don't have a clue what happens on farms and ranches. (Ranchers love their animals. They're salt of the earth folks who I've seen weep over hurt animals.) But let's say they only eat real, whole food. It still has an impact.

Most salad greens in the US are grown in California, then driven all the way to places like Boston (where you could grow lettuce 10 months of the year, and just avoid eating it the other 2) using 1000 times the calories in diesel to get very few calories into people's bodies. It's a destructive system. Veg are thrown away more than other foods, making their growth more wasteful. In landfills, that food waste doesn't compost as it would in a compost pile. If you can afford local meat and dairy and eggs, and, if you're keto, grow the few veg you eat yourself (so that you are eating them super-local, ripe, and in season only), using regenerative techniques yourself in gardening, like composting and piling on fall leaves, wood chips, and so on to improve soil health, and very little gasoline is burned getting food to you. If you get hens, they'll eat any leftover meat and veg, and you'll get eggs from them and free fertilizer for your gardens or lawn or trees.

The bottom line is, if you want to stay alive, the food you eat directly or indirectly kills animals and hurts the planet, unless you have the money to buy meat and veg only from regenerative farmers and ranchers or can produce it all yourself in sustainable ways (which means it's likely your only job because I've done some of it, and it requires very long work days nine months of the year.)

[californiabudreviews]

Processed “food” is not food.
I eat exclusively beef and I doubt I eat one whole cow a year, compare my carbon footprint to someone who eats processed junk and fast food, I’ll guarantee my footprint is substantially smaller than someone who eat standard American diet.

[michelinaschach]

what are your thoughts on the documentaries “earthlings” and “dominion”?

[georgemead]

And, of course, no mention of the environmental impact of diabetes, etc.

[bobmciver]

It may not be sexy, but data, data and more data is necessary in a world where he who has the loudest megaphone prevails.

[Lea]

Hope they don’t ban meat, I was a very I’ll vegetarian I’m now a healthy carnivore, they would be putting me to death

[adamsmithson]

Pozdrawiam serdecznie i życzę miłego dnia

[laveraparato]

I've been saying this the whole time! The fake meat crap is all ultra-processed and horrible for the environment. Even vegetarians I know won't touch that crap. Sure crickets are cheap, but how much environmental damage is done to process them into "flour" or almonds into "milk"?