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Beef, pork, chicken: the world loves cheap meat. If people knew what really goes in it, that love affair would be over | Antibiotic use in farming is now rampant and you should care about that (www.theguardian.com)
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[โ€“] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The singular products need to be checked. If consumption of plant-based meat would increase there is a non-zero chance of usage of lesser quality ingredients or the seeking of new additives to compete and produce more while minimizing cost, and then we would be at the starting point.

[โ€“] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

We at least wouldn't be at the same starting point since regardless of what happens, we'd still be with much lower environmental impact, zoonetic disease risk for society at large, number of animals in factory farms, etc.

Plant-based foods have a significantly smaller footprint on the environment than animal-based foods. Even the least sustainable vegetables and cereals cause less environmental harm than the lowest impact meat and dairy products

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/8/1614/html