Feed Planet Magazine Issue-Sayı: 42 September 2022

79 ARTICLE • MAKALE FEED PLANET / SEPTEMBER 2022 • EYLÜL 2022 soil and a lot of water, and they compete with us for food. This misinformation is influencing policy choices at high lev- els. Just think of the EAT-Lancet diet, proposed as the best diet for human and planet health. It is a semi-vegetarian diet with negligible quantities of meat, insufficient to guarantee the coverage of needs. Even taxes on meat and the exclu- sion of meat from school menus, canteens or public events have been proposed, inviting toward a completely vegetar- ian menu. But if we implement this diet worldwide, it will be a disaster“. We are facing purely economic interests, trying to replace animal proteins with plant proteins from ultra-processed ar- tificial foods. Some big investors fund this activity, like lab- grown meat cultivated in a laboratory or plant-based fake meat. As Fernando Estellés from the Polytechnic University of Valencia explains, these investors are trying to change our way of thinking, our way of life and influence us on a social, political and legislative level. Animal welfare and sustainability are used as arguments, blaming our meat consumption for destroying the planet and our health. “It must be taken into account that methane emit- ted by animals and CO2 from fossil fuels do not have the same effect” – Fernando Estellés explains – “Methane from animals remains in the atmosphere for ten years. So, it warms the planet, but after ten years, it disappears. It is then part of dir. Tamamen vejetaryen bir menüye davetiye çıkarılarak et vergileri; ve okul menülerinden, kantinlerden veya halka açık etkinliklerden etin çıkarılması bile teklif edildi. Ama bu diyeti dünya çapında uygularsak felaket olur.” Hayvansal proteinlerin yerine ultra işlenmiş yapay gıda- lardan elde edilen bitkisel proteinleri ikame etmeye çalı- şan tamamen ekonomik çıkarlarla karşı karşıyayız. Bazı büyük yatırımcılar laboratuvarda yetiştirilen et veya bitki bazlı sahte et gibi bu faaliyetleri finanse edi- yor. Valencia Politek- nik Üniversitesi'nden Fernando Estellés'in açıkladığı gibi, bu ya- tırımcılar düşünme biçimimizi, yaşam biçi- mimizi değiştirmeye ve sosyal, politik ve yasal düzeyde bizi etkileme- ye çalışıyorlar. Hayvan refahı ve sürdürülebilirlik, et tü- ketimimizi gezegeni ve sağlığımızı mah- vetmekle suçlayan Fernando-Estelles