A Flexitarian diet to save 10bn people

[Listlad]

Pass the Viagra, mate. Gotta get me some successors. 2050 ain't that far away gonna get a shift on or it will all be over too soon,

I thought the aim was the opposite i.e. to “cull” the world population in order to provide those that want it, a guaranteed supply of meat products (no reference to soylent green intended).

BTW how about going cannibal?

 

[Listlad]

The BBC is today reporting on a flexitarian diet
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46865204
It is part of the Environmental movement to save the planet and is intended to be made into a world diet for most of us

My concern is that it is a high carb diet with high sugar content, so would not be very suitable for those with a metabolic disease such as diabetes. It is the diet about to replace Eatwell and has the backing of several UK MP's. It was accepted by the Commons Environmental Comittee for adoption by 2030 at the latest. This would suggest regulation is not far away.

@Oldvatr

Close to home for me is a world renowned environmentalist who gave rise to the fairly well known legal principal of intergenerational equity as applied to the management of the planet and its resources for sustaining life. (I notice one or two posts within the thread allude to that thinking). He comes into all of this from a slightly different angle. I am sure he is right but getting the world to act in unison over managing the planet and what it provides for us in terms of land, air, water and food of course is the challenge.

It would be good to be a fly on the wall in 50 years time to see how we have progressed in managing our planet, resources and food sources.

 

[lucylocket61]

Intensive farming since the 70's, with the introduction then of artificial fertilizers, has resulted in foods of a lower nutritional quality. Just thought this point should be added to the equation. And that includes dairy and meat due to the different feeding methods now used. However, policy makers seem to use the nutritional figures from the 40's and 50's when calculating diets for the future.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2005/may/15/foodanddrink.shopping3 from 2005, but is very hard to find up to date information on this. Worth a read and a further explore, anyway.

 

[Oldvatr]

Intensive farming since the 70's, with the introduction then of artificial fertilizers, has resulted in foods of a lower nutritional quality. Just thought this point should be added to the equation. And that includes dairy and meat due to the different feeding methods now used. However, policy makers seem to use the nutritional figures from the 40's and 50's when calculating diets for the future.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2005/may/15/foodanddrink.shopping3 from 2005, but is very hard to find up to date information on this. Worth a read and a further explore, anyway.

Fertilizers have one job to do - replace the nitrogen in the soil quickly. They do not currently replace the trace minerals and elements that get removed from the topsoil by modern farming methods. Also these fertilizers tend to kill off the essential microbes that create amino acids, and the pesticides also kill off the worms and other burrowing insects that used to form the ecosystem that traditional farming used to maintain. We no longer let fields lie fallow, or rotate crops with nitrogen rich plants that get ploughed back in to restore the ecostasis naturally. A field of wheat is a field of wheat 24/7/51