One of the biggest questions I get when I talk about animal-based diets, and I recommend that people

try and get one gram of protein per pound of body weight per day. That is one gram of animal protein

per pound of body weight per day is Paul. Is this type of diet sustainable? Could everyone on the

planet eat this way? And what about the impacts on the climate and the environment? I've done multiple

podcasts on this in the past, most recently with Rob Wolf, who wrote a book called Sacred Cow.

We'll link to that in this video here. But I was recently sent an article from the World

Resources Institute by a good friend of mine, and I thought I would just go through this article

and talk about why I think it's BS. Why I think they're completely wrong in their assertion that

meat is not sustainable and that beef cannot be part of a sustainable diet. So here is the article.

This is the World Resource Institute, and the title is Sustainable Diet. What you need to know in

12 charts, this article is from 2016, but many of the same arguments continue to be applied. So

we'll just go through the charts real quickly. The first chart says, the world needs to close a 70%

food gap. They're saying there's a required increase in food calories to feed 9.7 billion people

by 2050, meaning that between when this article was written presumably 2016 and they're saying

between 2006 and 2050, we're going to have to make 70% more calories to feed all these people.

Now, you have only to go to the first graphic, and I'm already having disputes with this article.

I want this video to be mostly about the sustainability of meat and the consumption of meat

and healthy diet, so I don't want to get too sidetracked. But I think it's important to consider

something that I might call the ishmail effect, which is the idea that if you are simply always trying

to close a caloric gap, you will always have more people to feed. And if you feed 10 billion people,

then there will soon be 12 billion people. This is just the way of life. So this is not an argument

against feeding 10 billion people. It's just an argument to say that you're always going to have

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