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Is Alternative Meat the Recipe for a Healthier Planet? | Tao Zhang | TED

A Chinese saying goes, “There’s no pleasure in eating without meat.” And the data backs that up: every year, China consumes 26 percent of the world’s meat and 45 percent of its seafood — numbers that could grow alongside rising incomes. Impact investor Tao Zhang shows why getting Chinese consumers to switch to plant-based alternatives…

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A Chinese saying goes, “There’s no pleasure in eating without meat.” And the data backs that up: every year, China consumes 26 percent of the world’s meat and 45 percent of its seafood — numbers that could grow alongside rising incomes. Impact investor Tao Zhang shows why getting Chinese consumers to switch to plant-based alternatives is vital to tackling climate change and explores how it’s also a massive business opportunity to bring tasty, affordable new proteins to market.

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62 Comments

  1. @joestetz8325

    January 10, 2024 at 9:35 am

    The brain washing is real.

  2. @user-hf4eh2ts3q

    January 10, 2024 at 9:36 am

    NO! DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT. And since you mentioned it, im gonna eat TWO STEAKS now!

    • @Ivan-qf4mt

      January 10, 2024 at 9:41 am

      Spite based cholesterol spiking, gl with that.

    • @honkiavelli8044

      January 10, 2024 at 10:15 am

      @@Ivan-qf4mt “it’s a good thing that you know a lot about nutrition” said no one ever….

    • @noktumwhatever753

      January 10, 2024 at 10:26 am

      Dietary cholesterol does not effect blood serum cholesterol. Dieticians have known this for quite a long time now. There was a man in a nursing home who had a diet of ONLY 20-25 boiled eggs a day, for over 10 years. They did a case study on him, his cholesterol was perfectly normal. Inflammation, primarily from concentrated and artificial sweeteners causes cholesterol that is normally healthy and NECESSARY for your body to get stuck in arteries. It’s not the cholesterol that’s bad, it’s the sugar. Our great grandparents had VERY high cholesterol diets yet cancer was significantly more rare in their time than it is today. You know whats everywhere and in everything today that wasn’t in their time? Sugar. @@Ivan-qf4mt

  3. @jamesmcgill3268

    January 10, 2024 at 9:42 am

    Who df is this guy

    • @narrativegatherer3128

      January 10, 2024 at 9:49 am

      Don’t know, don’t care

    • @MichaelGGarry

      January 10, 2024 at 10:13 am

      Google is right there….

    • @jamesmcgill3268

      January 10, 2024 at 10:19 am

      @@MichaelGGarry those people just buy their exposure and then use this in their high end resume ,Ted is bull now if I search this guys name there’s at least 10 people show up I still don’t know

    • @jamesmcgill3268

      January 10, 2024 at 10:19 am

      @@narrativegatherer3128 yes me too 😂

  4. @chiconeededthemoney

    January 10, 2024 at 9:45 am

    I will never eat bugs so you can take a flying leap.

    • @MichaelGGarry

      January 10, 2024 at 10:14 am

      Did he even mention bugs once? Did you even listen?

    • @noktumwhatever753

      January 10, 2024 at 10:24 am

      I don’t need the push for bugs to know not to eat alternative meat. It’s packed full of microplastics per the latest research on that front. And the bugs thing isn’t far away, Europe is already allowing up to 3% cricket protein in some products in some countries. @@MichaelGGarry

    • @jhunt5578

      January 10, 2024 at 2:56 pm

      ​@@noktumwhatever753That research showed that meat also had tons of microplastics. Smh

    • @noktumwhatever753

      January 10, 2024 at 3:14 pm

      Only certain kinds/cuts of meat. And not eggs. Also doesn’t apply to animals you raise yourself. Also whataboutism doesn’t change the truth of my statement. Are you saying you’ll knowingly consume something that’s bad for you because you’re told the alternative is also bad? Humans have eaten meat as long as humans have existed, what we haven’t done is eaten chemicals made to look like meat in a factory. Do you, I don’t care about other peoples diets. But fake me proponents are delusional at best, and outright intentionally poisoning people for a profitable trend at worst. @@jhunt5578

    • @noktumwhatever753

      January 10, 2024 at 3:16 pm

      Think about it, does it make sense to eat something slightly contaminated that humans have been safely eating for thousands of years, or would you rather eat something you know for a fact is contaminated and we have no long term data on the safety of? People, doctors included, said cigarettes were not only safe but healthy for decades and decades. Then, they learned better because people consumed them for their whole lives and started dying from very severe smoking related illnesses. The same thing will happen with fake meat. @@jhunt5578

  5. @Retly_Ai

    January 10, 2024 at 9:46 am

    Damn Ted just doesn’t stop spreading propaganda

    • @MichaelGGarry

      January 10, 2024 at 10:13 am

      What propaganda is that then?

    • @honkiavelli8044

      January 10, 2024 at 10:16 am

      @@MichaelGGarry glorification of goyslop

    • @noktumwhatever753

      January 10, 2024 at 10:23 am

      that alternative meats are even remotely healthy. Read the latest data on microplastics in the stuff. @@MichaelGGarry

    • @dabombdawg3033

      January 10, 2024 at 10:40 am

      @@MichaelGGarry Climate change nonsense!!!

    • @dabombdawg3033

      January 10, 2024 at 11:26 am

      @@MichaelGGarry Climate change!?

  6. @wonderland-vz9cb

    January 10, 2024 at 9:46 am

    Never going to eat that processed garbage! Meat is healthy.

  7. @wonderland-vz9cb

    January 10, 2024 at 9:47 am

    Chinese are eating more meat, driving more cars, gaining more wealth while american are on the opposite.

  8. @Dan-yh8qp

    January 10, 2024 at 9:55 am

    I look forward to the day we can all enjoy eating the same tasting food as we do today with zero animal suffering and a fraction of the environmental impact that our current system inflicts on us.

    • @djayjp

      January 10, 2024 at 6:08 pm

      That’s the present day! It’s available right now.

  9. @TheViralVegan

    January 10, 2024 at 10:00 am

    Promising results! So excited to see more attention on the largest issue facing climate change. More plant forward solutions 💚

  10. @honkiavelli8044

    January 10, 2024 at 10:13 am

    I wholeheartedly hope that all of you will eat alternative meat. Please eat it every day and snack on it as well to ensure that we have a better future.

  11. @dabombdawg3033

    January 10, 2024 at 10:13 am

    Good luck with that, LMAO!!!

  12. @dabombdawg3033

    January 10, 2024 at 10:21 am

    If it’s such a good product why does nobody want to invest in it, also animal meat is not just about protein there are also essential nutrients, amino acids in animal protein that are not present in plant proteins so good luck convincing people to malnourish themselves to stop “climate change” whatever that is lol!?

  13. @noktumwhatever753

    January 10, 2024 at 10:21 am

    According to the newest research on microplastics, “alternative” meats are packed full of them on top of all the sodium and other additives. It gets very old having people knowingly try to sell us garbage that they already know is incredibly bad for our bodies.

    • @Baraz_Red

      January 10, 2024 at 2:47 pm

      Too much sodium in some fake meats is an issue. For the rest, you are making an abusive generalization to serve your position.

  14. @HGICQueenDiamondAries

    January 10, 2024 at 10:34 am

    YOU eat the FAKE meat and bugs with recycled sewer water…

    We will eat the real meat.

    Don’t bother us, don’t get hurt.

    The more you f around, the more you find out.

  15. @dabombdawg3033

    January 10, 2024 at 10:38 am

    In answer to the question/title of this video, NO!!!

  16. @alexbrownofficial

    January 10, 2024 at 11:28 am

    Good to see the people in the comments section not buying into this nonsense

  17. @olti2455

    January 10, 2024 at 11:56 am

    It’s like getting cancer from the fountain lmao we already been poisoning from them

  18. @DoctorKlenk

    January 10, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    Reading some comments here makes you understand why the US has a 42% adult obesity rate.

    • @carsonhunt4642

      January 10, 2024 at 2:55 pm

      Yep, and 84% are overweight! 😮

  19. @zakw4540

    January 10, 2024 at 12:55 pm

    Lol!

  20. @Baraz_Red

    January 10, 2024 at 2:41 pm

    It works great for me : I had a major heart attack at 50, with now a chronic heart weakness. I now eat a lot of fake meat and it helps a lot (beyond beans, lentils, etc.). To be clear, I already ate very little meat for ecological reasons (flexitarian), but cholesterol still accumulated in my arteries. If this sounds like an individual thing, please consider that heart issues are the #1 causes of death worldwide!
    ( I am in Canada )

    • @DaudWardhana-ps5wd

      January 10, 2024 at 10:58 pm

      FORMULA SEVEN

    • @Chris-kr7gg

      January 11, 2024 at 4:51 pm

      Clearly, you must of had a high carb diet along with other inflammatory factors, do some research meat HEALS! Sugar and insulin spikes clearly are correlated, if not a clear causation to heart disease. Man, I feel bad for you. I, too, was clueless about an optimal diet once.

    • @Baraz_Red

      January 11, 2024 at 5:10 pm

      ​@@Chris-kr7gg In my case, I don’t think I had a high-carb issue nor sugar issue. It was utter cholesterol in the heart. There is also a genetic factor (that affects a lot of Humans), as they realized when some very athletic people were accumulating cholesterol in their arteries. Another big factor is lack of physical activity: my near-death was after the COVID crisis during which I beat records of being seated all week. I don’t think it is a coincidence. 😛

      I tried to eat healthy, but I still often ate too much cheap pizzas (often all of it) and too often. Or complete meat pies (which have high-carbs). Since physical activity converts bad cholesterol into OK cholesterol, I suspect my flexitarian diet (with some spikes of terrible pizzas) was not the sole factor. For example, among most of my male friends around 40 years old, I was one of the smallest (150 lbs albeit short ; so not obese).

      According to current science, excess cholesterol (i.e. the liver produces most needed cholesterol) comes from animal products and byproducts. Fats from animal products, not vegetable based fats.

      I do see that carbs can cause other forms of cardiovascular diseases, related first to the liver.

    • @Chris-kr7gg

      January 11, 2024 at 5:54 pm

      @@Baraz_Red systemic inflammation and chronic inflammation probably played a part. Cholesterol, isn’t the demon in the room. A predispostion to genetic factors are possible. From what you previously aforementioned about very little meat in your diet it clearly wasn’t the meat.

      I can only surmise vitamin D defiency and possible lack of K2 to put calcium in the bones and not the arteries was a possible issue along with processed foods and maybe other bad habits! Out of interest when you had a heart attack was you exercising/exerting yourself ? Also do you practice fasting?

      I’m from the UK and its funny how until the 80s everyone predominantly ate animal proteins and fat and even smoked yet were slim and heart attack rates were a far lower cause of death! Until a fella called Ancel Keys villanised saturated fat and promoted polyunsaturaed fats. It’s true low ldl cholesterol can reduce atherosclerosis, yet humans hormones run on cholesterol to an extent. So you can try to correct a problem and cause a plethora of others K2 is funnily enough found in cheese products yet its terrible for people supposedly, maybe it was the combination of sugars/carbs lack of nutrients and lack of fasting which causes issues also all the rancid toxic seed oils promoted as healthy, which are usually high in polyunsaturated fats.

    • @Baraz_Red

      January 11, 2024 at 6:02 pm

      @@Chris-kr7gg I had just walked up the steepest hill in my area and it was a hot day. It hit me about 15 minutes later. The main artery of my heart was utterly blocked.

      Nb : after a year of a more strict regime of non-meat proteins and some vegetables (set by myself, reducing my cholesterol from 3.1 to 0.7), I do occasionally eat meat now, and I doubt I lack good cholesterol (that is almost never an issue from what I read). In any case, I try to diversify and “cheat” my regime on purpose in order to add variety.

  21. @OminousFilm

    January 10, 2024 at 3:00 pm

    Mushroom based always better if acidity is considered, acid breaks down the sensitive inner body workings and turns your flesh into mucus, said mucus build up in the body is disease, illness or sickness. Alkaline balance is essential for gut health otherwise the body does not absorb any nutrients from said food properly, only with proper gut health acidity. True healthcare always begins at the breakfast, lunch and dinner plate, less acidity for optimal body function, healing shouldn’t be interrupted with injury, get me?

  22. @poliniandrea88

    January 10, 2024 at 3:03 pm

    Great salesman

  23. @HealthZo

    January 10, 2024 at 3:51 pm

    😊😊

  24. @Kamedouken

    January 10, 2024 at 4:03 pm

    this video is optimizing and capitalizing on fools who believe this

  25. @nickatchison1163

    January 10, 2024 at 5:32 pm

    I will stick to my ethically produced, grown, and sourced natural authentic beef, chicken, pork, etc.

    • @cyndlehick9777

      January 11, 2024 at 12:00 am

      Yes.

  26. @cyndlehick9777

    January 10, 2024 at 11:59 pm

    VEGANISIM IS NOT SUSTAINABLE FOR THE PLANET.

  27. @ThingsIBuy

    January 11, 2024 at 1:14 am

    I’m having a meat life crisis 😞 honestly though, if it tastes good, I’m down for fo meat.

  28. @daicenz3775

    January 11, 2024 at 2:17 am

    show me the money!

  29. @debralynnpaxton5238

    January 11, 2024 at 2:18 am

    This is part of a Global Depopulation Plan.

  30. @scorpionkrait3421

    January 11, 2024 at 4:03 am

    You don’t need an alternative for something you don’t need at all.

    But for those with food addiction it’s a solution. Fat lovers, your not-so-slim body definitely wants plant proteins! 😂

    • @psychedelicspirituality

      January 11, 2024 at 5:04 am

      Unfortunately, B12 is extremely hard to supplement, and can only be consumed in meats at the volume needed to keep your brain functioning correctly.

      We evolved to eat meat over millions of years. That’s just how our bodies function.

  31. @psychedelicspirituality

    January 11, 2024 at 5:02 am

    B12 deficiency can make you go crazy.

  32. @jacko00

    January 11, 2024 at 5:20 am

    I can see Lupin protein being the plant protein of the future. Supposedly it doesn’t taste like garbage.

  33. @yanhuagu

    January 11, 2024 at 9:23 am

    Don’t flatter yourself. Ordinary people in China simply cannot afford to eat meat. Rural families can eat meat a few times a year which it’s pretty good. In addition, urban meat has all kinds of Harmful Substance and they don’t dare to eat it. I don’t think it’s their choice that Chinese people eat less meat, it’s that they can’t afford it.

    • @Chris-kr7gg

      January 11, 2024 at 4:53 pm

      Yet they had/ have one of the biggest economies that’s communism for you. Shithole springs to mind.

  34. @kevlarguardian

    January 11, 2024 at 1:35 pm

    Serious epicness!

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