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Beef produces 85 kg CO2e per kg of food. Tofu produces 2.9 kg CO2e per kg of food. (ourworldindata.org)
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[โ€“] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world -4 points 7 months ago (9 children)

I am all for meat free (or lab grown) alternatives and they're getting better but honestly in their current state if I had to eat tofu instead of beef I'd just eat neither. (Maybe I've just been unlucky and only tried really bad tofu?)

[โ€“] Skua@kbin.social 6 points 7 months ago

The other comments are right, but if you don't like tofu there are absolutely other options. Legumes in particular are really good for the same kind of role in many dishes, and in my opinion are generally far more enjoyable. Get some mushroom and/or seaweed flavours in there for the umami and butter beans for the texture and all the nutritional goodness and I'm a happy man

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