The real issue with animal-based high-protein food choices is not about your individual health, nor is nutritional deficits. Assuming that you are in fact eating a healthy, nutritionally complete high-protein, high-satiety diet.
The issue is the planetary impact and indirect harm to all human beings.
A 6-minute summary of our long-form article talking about obesity and nutritional deficits in billions of people, and how a high-protein plus whole plant-based food approach solves both issues for almost everyone.
Protein bars should not be your main protein pillar. But when you are in a pinch they are
easy to bring, quick to eat, and while one bar will not fill you up. Many protein bars deliver a moderate protein snack. Combine with milk, a fruit, and some chia seeds.
This quick meal: 55g of Protein & 372 calories.
Say hello to our whole eggs + pasta and potato meal, made complete with beans and a whole plate of tasty, nutritionally rich veggies.
40 grams of protein and 716 calories.
Think of Earth as an almost closed-off circular system with a finite capacity to handle pollution, natural resource drain, loss, and imbalances.
Now take roughly 9 billion humans and add our environmental impact together, and you are left with the mathematical reason why sustainability matters.
Case A.
Beef requires roughly 20 times more land than nuts, and 35 times more than grains to produce the same amount of edible protein.