Exactly. Seeing this makes me want to fire up the grill and tackle the nearst cow.

When found out that hamburger was ground up cow, I told everyone else in my first grade class. They did not believe me. I wanted to stop eating meat right then and there, but my parents made me until I was old enough to cook for myself.

For what it’s worth, a lot of beans have decent amounts of iron. Leafy greens also but they’re as expensive as meat depending on when and where you buy them (which I’m sure you know). I think you’re right that a lot of the reduction in meat consumption is probably attributable less to shifting cultural values or…

There are two kinds of iron: heme (from animals) and non-heme (from plants, typically greens and beans). To increase absorption, eat non-heme iron with foods rich in vitamin C (citrus, blueberries, strawberries, tomatoes, and even potatoes).

😂 dietician. if only. for that, one needs to have health insurance and more than $2 to their name. (i have an entire list of specialists i should go see, and a chronic illness to figure out... and it all just has to wait, unfortunately.)

Oh, I don’t claim to have the answer, that’s just my stupid stupid pseudo-diet. But it is a start, cutting down on beef or/and stopping it altogether is a step towards other dietary changes, like the introduction of soy based products (itself another environmental problem, so uh).

Seriously. Deer are cute, but they are gawdawful pests, not to mention the whole Lyme thing.

SYNTH people! SYNTH people! Look like SYNTH, talk like PEOPLE

it might be synth people

My Dad, who has never been hunting in his life, has been advocating the “hunt Bambi” approach for decades.

...what? Soylent Green was made of people. That was the whole point. Synthetic meat is made of muscle fibers cultivated in a lab, and is not people.

This isn’t so much the answer, firstly because the factory farm system isn’t just red meat (poultry is a major part of it, even if it doesn’t cause as many issues as beef), and second because the seafood industry has its own whole host of sustainability issues.

Or just relaxing hunting laws to the point where people can hunt for the existing deer more easily. As it is, viable hunting land is shrinking rapidly, which means the deer population is booming.

I’d really love to try lab-grown triceratops meat. Science people: please don’t explain to me why this isn’t possible. Let me dream.

The problem is that historically, the only effective tool we’ve seen that dramatically changes market behavior is taxation. Good luck getting Congress to pass a meat tax when half of Congress doesn’t even acknowledge silly things like global warming are actually real. We’re all screwed.

THIS IS NOT HELPING.

So we’re screwed, basically.

I’m on record as stating that I’ll eat insects a) if they taste OK, and b) if they do not look in any way like insects.

I’ve had pretty good luck substituting beans, nuts, meat substitutes, eggs and cheese for actual meat, but it is tough to get the hang of eating like that and NOT ending up with mostly pasta and salad, you’re right. Still, I’ve managed to get down to only two (or in winter sometimes three) days a week being meat days.…

honestly i imagine a lot of people are eating less meat because it became a lot more expensive in the last several years. i know i’m part of a household that’s mostly fed by pasta & crossed fingers. and i’m anemic, and i need that protein.