Eating less meat? Meatless butchers to mushroom burgers can help

Rome: From the juicy chicken parts and sausage roll to bacon and tuna, the Dutch butcher jap cortege provides all this. But there is a twist: None of the items displayed in the shop in The Hague are made of meat.

In 1997, after the killing of millions of pigs for swine fever in the Netherlands, a vegetarian became worried about the welfare of animals, which became a ninth generation peasant Kotevag vegetarian.

But he had missed the taste and texture of the meat so much that he met with scientists and chefs to make alternatives to plants which used to catch both.

Cortegage told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, "The reason of relatively few vegetarians in many parts of the world is not that people want less durable, less healthy food and do not care about animal welfare, but because they are put on the meat . " .

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, adherence to animals is a major driver of climate change - making up about 15 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions - and by increasing the meat compared to growing crops, less efficient use of meat and water is.

While governments and scientists are looking for ways to cut emissions from the cultivation of animals, many experts say there is a lack of demand for meat - especially in rich countries - there will be major differences in connecting climate change.

Mushroom Burger?

Researchers say that cutting back does not mean leaving the meat, which looks tasty compared to a plate of vegetables.

According to the research of the World Resources Institute, all hamburgers eaten in the United States can be made up of 70 percent beef and 30 percent of a mixture of mushrooms, for example, it will save many emissions as taking 2.3 million cars from the road. , WRI).

Eating less meat? Meatless butchers to mushroom burgers can help

It will save water used in 2.6 million US households, and the U.S. state of Maryland, or Belgian will reduce the required agricultural land to produce burgers in the larger area, WRI said.

Daniel Weinard, Director of Better Purchasing Laboratory in WRI said, "Because of the extra taste of mushrooms and urine, you can end with a better tasting burger - and it's healthy."

The leading part-mushroom burgers in the United States, where WRI is eaten approximately 10 billion burgers each year, are now available for purchase in the supermarket, and are also served in some schools and office canteens.

On Monday, burgers will also launch on the Sonic Drive in the fast food chain around the United States. The restaurant said that it will present part-mushroom burgers in all its restaurants.

"It's actually going to grow in the United States. They're getting a lot of industry and consumer traction, and we think it has a chance to be a global solution," said Weinard.

Remove label

Eating too much meat is associated with obesity, heart disease, diabetes and some cancers, which can be pushed to some governments including China, so that people can be encouraged to cut back.

But by labeling foods as "vegetarian" or "healthy" people can find out in shopkeepers and restaurants, some researchers say.

Linda Bacon, a practicing scientist and former global strategist of Mars, Inc., has studied that people's options in the restaurant depend on where vegetarian dishes are kept on the menu.

He found that when the title of "vegetarian dishes" was clustered at the end of the menu at the end of the menu, peas risotto and rica and spinach ravioli, the possibility of ordering people was 56 percent lower, if they were the first and the last dish on an integrated The menu was listed as - which included King Pran, Fish and Chips, Steak and Hamburger.

He wrote in a blog post, "This and other similar research shows that restaurants can influence their customers to eat more vegetables and less meat." "All they have to do is change the design of the menu."

According to Stanford University researchers, use of extinction sound details also promotes the sale of vegetable dishes.

When University Canteen used labels such as "Sweet Sizzlin" green beans and crispy shallots "," Zesti ginger-turmeric sweet potato "and" rich butterry roasted sweet corn, "they should be given a hygiene label for the same dishes Sold a lot more than, or simply called beans or sweet potatoes.

Meanwhile, the Dutch-based chicken and Dutch manufacturer of Bacon, Corteg, is now selling its products in Europe, and Israel and South Korea.

Almost all of the supermarkets in the UK and Netherlands are sold by supermarkets, which are starting to use them in ready-made food and salads.

His first customer was a butcher near Rotterdam. "He tasted our products and said, 'It is not necessary for me to use meat. I just want to use delicious products,' said Corteg.

"Meats" are made of wheat, beans, peas, soya and other plant-based proteins, which are fed in a machine which helps them to give shape to meat. Natural flavor is added to taste.