Could eating superfoods lead to damaging the ecosystem?

[Alex bAlex]

It's all this thing with superfoods just hype at the end? What are your thoughts about this? 

Edited September 24, 2020 by Alex bAlex

[Leo Gura]

It's not like non-superfoods are doing wonders for the ecosystem.

P.S. Avocado is an exotic ingredient? LOL

[Member]

Yeah, let's stop eating meat, avocados and everything that grows and survive just with air and sun rays.

Edited September 24, 2020 by Member

[Girzo]

2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

P.S. Avocado is an exotic ingredient? LOL

It is in Germany.

[Michael569]

8 hours ago, datamonster said:

The most damaging to the planet and people is factory farmed meat. It's ridiculous to argue about eating a teaspoon of chia seeds a day with this elephant in the room

 agreed

 

Superfoods are highly overrated especially with the number of nutrients marketers claim they contain. Different countries would have different staple foods and there is this trend that if it comes from the amazon forest or mountains, it has to be exceptional. 

Where Europe has blueberries, South America has Acaii. Where Europe has buckwheat, Asia has brown rice and South America has quinoa. Where Europe has beetroot, Peru has Maca. Different people have different foods that have historically ensured a decent proportion of their calories. But now with the endless exploitation of our western countries we have turned these into "super foods" and are selling them for excessive prices. Most of those foods are not worth the carbon footprint and can easily be replaced by local foods. So many people even on this forum are afraid of legumes for example where they easily beat any powders out there. 

You don't have to eat chia, walnuts grow all over the place and flax is as cheap to grow as sunflowers. 

 

[Rajneeshpuram]

Avocados for example are being cultivated in places that were typically for growing grains, this depletes the scarce water resources and nearby forests get dry.