[–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

it's actually a tragic state for the academy. no reproducible studies. bad methodology. and everyone citing each other uncritically. it would be nice to have good data on ecology and nutrition, but everyone is so focused on just getting the paper out that no one is trying to advance the science.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I'm totally out of the loop on the nutritional side of this so I usually stay in my lane. I've read a lot of the lit on the environmental side and I can say with certainty that all the claims made about food production might be true, but the research simply isn't properly methodized to support it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    life cycle assessment. if you read the references in poore-nemecek 2018, you will find that they didn't even gather the studies themselves. they are doing a meta study of meta studies. when you read their sources, those papers talk explicitly about the problem of combining disparately methodized study data, but then go on to do so. poore-nemecek doesn't even acknowledge this faux pas.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    We combined livestock production data with average species and product-specific land use data from [12] to estimate species, product and country-specific land use data associated with animal agriculture.

    they just take poore-nemecek and plug it into their research. no discussion on the problem of combining disparately methodized lca data.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)
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