Even a modest shift from ruminant meat to microbial proteins may minimize deforestation and carbon emissions 56 per cent by 2050
Environment
4 May 2022
An worker inspects meat-free “chicken pieces”, manufactured by Quorn Foods Simon Dawson/Bloomberg by way of Getty Images
Swapping a fifth of the world’s meat consumption for meat-free options made in factories would greater than halve international deforestation and associated carbon emissions, a gaggle of researchers has discovered.
Cattle ranches and crops grown to feed cows are two of the largest drivers of forests being cleared throughout the tropics, which is continuous regardless of political pledges to curb the lack of carbon-rich, biodiverse habitats.
Microbial proteins, such because the Quorn mycoprotein constituted of a fungus and sugar in heated …