Are Plant- and Fungus-Based Meats Really Better than the Real Thing?
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The Environmental Impacts of Alt Meat Products
Conventionally farmed beef has the highest environmental impacts on almost every metric you look at. The greenhouse gas roduction and land and water use reduction when you eat an alt meat burgher is a huge improvement over industrial beef, but it's a slightly less dramatic improvement compared to industrial chicken. One concern that's been raised is that these alt meat products are still using monocultures of soy and peas and sugar that are based in industrial agriculture. But rachel says that even taking that into consideration, these products over all, are an environmental improvement.
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