On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jun 22, 2008, at 1:56 PM, Gar Lipow wrote: > >> cheese > > Give up cheese? Really? A cheeseless life would be deeply sad. > > Doug > _______________________________________________
Not give up cheese. But but less total. It turns out that cheese has about 90% of the impact oz for oz as the animal it comes from. When population levels off in 2050 we could handle 3 oz of red meat per person, the rest of protein chicken, vegetables and fish (the fish component might sustainably be large or tiny depending on a lot of things.) So you could have 3 oz of cheese a day if you gave up other all other red meat. 3 oz is a fair amount of cheese, though I admit as someone who also loves cheese, less than I'd prefer. Probably more than is healthy though. Right now population is still under seven billion, so right now you can eat more. Cottage cheese, milk and yogurt which are mostly water 4 oz is I think the equiv of an oz of cheese. Of course if enough people turn vegan that leaves more red meat and dairy for the rest of us. Go vegan. Choose vegan. Basically sustainable beef comes from cattle or bison that are completely range fed and finished, but are grazed sustainably. It is hard to ranged dairy (though I've heard some farmers trying it.) But you can stll do mostly grazed dairy using pasture rather than range, with hay to get animals through the winter. So how does three oz of cheese daily sound? _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
