Researchers said changing packaging on meat and dairy-free products, which often proudly tout their vegan status, could result in more people selecting them.
People are more likely to pick a meat-free option if it’s not labelled vegan, a study suggests.
Foods described as “healthy”, “sustainable” or “plant-based” are all more appealing, according to the University of Southern California.
Its research saw more than 7,000 people asked to choose between a vegan food basket and one with meat and dairy.
The former was randomly labelled “vegan”, “plant-based”, “healthy”, “sustainable” or “healthy and sustainable”.
The experiment found people were more likely to select it when the focus was on its benefits (such as “sustainable”) rather than its content, though “plant-based” was still more popular than “vegan”.
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Humans also hunted those animals on foot and killed them with rocks. Things are different now and meat consumption is killing the planet.
the problem is production. consumption has no impact on the planet.
… Consumption drives production, though.
not causally. in fact, industry creates its own demand.
Damn right. market does NOT regulate itself
no. companies and people in governments can choose to do the right thing, yet they do the opposite. why? sweet sweet dollars.
to be honest, after the hunting period they captured the animals, cross bred them, kept them near them and then obviously killed them to eat them, just to eventually invent the internet, among other things.
Never vaccinate, humans weren’t vaccinating since the beginning. Don’t fix what is not broken
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False dichotomy.
There’s a number of other alternatives:
reduction in global population has already been mentioned, but there’s also technology change (industrialised farming has kept us well ahead of the “we can’t feed that many people” curve for a century);
and technology advances in what we eat (lab grown meat etc);
there are also unexploited sources of protein such as insects.
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what are pros of +8 billion humans?
Edit: let’s also say, >three billions humans
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oh for a moment I thought there was an upside. completely agree.
meat isn’t the issue, it’s humans in numbers >3 billions.