Scientists Say We Could Feed 1 Billion More People With One Change to the Global Food System
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Scientists Say We Could Feed 1 Billion More People With One Change to the Global Food System
Currently, the global food system accounts for nearly a third of greenhouse gas emissions, and land use for livestock production has been a devastating force of deforestation, using up 80 percent of global farmland to provide fewer than 20 percent of the calories consumed globally.
Mold • Restriction as Possibility; Lifestyle as Politics - MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food
Malte said a move towards plant-based meats could also help alleviate food crises. “You are cutting out the ‘middleman’, whether it’s a cow, a pig or a chicken. It’s just mathematics: if instead of feeding all of these crops to animals, and then eating the animals, you just use the crops directly for human consumption, you need less crops overall a... See more
DAMIAN CARRINGTON • Plant Based Meats Do More to Address Climate Change Than Green Buildings or Zero-Emission Cars
by shifting the split to 40, 50, and 10 percent, we could (thanks to grain feed saved by reducing inefficient beef production) produce easily 30 percent more chicken meat and 20 percent more pork, while more than halving beef’s environmental burden—and still supplying at least 10 percent more meat.
Vaclav Smil • Numbers Don't Lie
The amount of land used in food production could be reduced with the combination of better farming practices, reduced food waste, and the widespread adoption of moderate meat consumption. As already explained in chapter 2, reversion to preindustrial farming is inconceivable in a world of nearly 8 billion people, but getting higher yields with exist
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