not only are beans healthier, we have the technology to perfectly recreate meat and should replace all livestock industry with it
not only are beans healthier, we have the technology to perfectly recreate meat and should replace all livestock industry with it
This is a ridiculous take,
While beans are inarguably more land, water and nutrient efficient than livestock for food production purposes, they're still far less efficient than say, designer algae, as well as being far more soil and climate dependent. If you're going to go to all the effort of completely revamping humanities food production system, beans are not the way to go.
The real reason they first spring to mind as the replacement for livestock is western vegan cultural chauvinism. Beans are a significant icon in current industrialised capitalist vegan society and the attempt to make this icon of ones own culture a mandatory staple for all of humanity is tribalistic cultural chauvinism at its most base.
Fuck beans. Humanity has progressed beyond the need for beans.
All of the entire world would like to have a word with you.
Aren't beans and similar plants even more prominent in the global south, with what sort is most prominent depending on the local climate? It's mostly in American cooking that they're rare or reduced to some revolting, poorly cooked side dish.
That said I can't imagine there's anywhere they take on a similar prominence as meat has in the American diet, they're just a common addition to food because what they bring to a dish is generally good.
Good bit
This phrase literally made me laugh