No reasons at at like that really if you think about it
To produce 1 kg of protein from kidney beans required approximately eighteen times less land, ten times less water, nine times less fuel, twelve times less fertilizer and ten times less pesticide in comparison to producing 1 kg of protein from beef
There are environmental and ethical reasons to do this. Not just cost
I’m not sure that’s such a great moral logic given that this also applies to human children
I meant more the types of beans, I kind of assumed you were talking about a bean-only chili. I suppose my assumption was not true
What is your hypothesis for the maximum possible beans per chili?
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I appreciate the commitment
“swap beans for meat” is a valid way to say “beans instead of meat”
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/23360/substitute-x-for-y
Depending on what you count as a bean, the textures can very quite a lot. Especially if you make stuff that’s blended
I don’t think your cans are supposed to have holes in them
“for” usually means the first thing is replacing the second. If it said “with” than it’d go the other way
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/23360/substitute-x-for-y
There are indeed. I’ve bought pre-made Chickpea Tofu at the store before though it has a very different texture and taste than soy based tofu. I’ve also heard of Pumfu (Pumpkin Seed Tofu) as a thing you can buy. Looking it up there’s a ton more that I hadn’t heard of like fava bean, split yellow pea, split green pea, pigeon pea tofu, red lentil, sunflower seed, and more though I’d assume those you’d probably have to make it yourself instead of being able to buy?
Tragic on the bean front, but there are some other good plants worth trying
If you can have wheat & gluten, give Seitan a try! Super high protein and kind of meaty taste
Quina, potatoes, chia, hemp, pumpkin seeds, mycoprotein (from mushrooms) are also worth using too! As well as stuff like oatmilk of course too
Yeah English prepositions can be a little weird sometimes like that
“for” usually means the first thing is replacing the second. If it said “with” than it’d go the other way
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/23360/substitute-x-for-y
Don’t worry if we all switch to something woker like Tofu, we just might avoid this fate
I might be contributing to both sides of this as a bean eater and bean meme poster
For those confused by the graph at the bottom: Plants are inputs as feed to chickens. That’s the starting point this is using and comparing the losses to
Even if we include transport and processing and use worst cases of those, the efficiency is still massively improved by eating plants
Transport is a small contributor to emissions. For most food products, it accounts for less than 10%, and it’s much smaller for the largest GHG emitters. In beef from beef herds, it’s 0.5%.
Not just transport, but all processes in the supply chain after the food left the farm – processing, transport, retail and packaging – mostly account for a small share of emissions.
It’s mentioning those as another step energy loss from the feed happens. As energy from feed is going to parts of chickens that humans will not eat (feather, bones, etc.)
Weird that it wouldn’t show the alt text, but it says