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.
from Restriction as Possibility; Lifestyle as Politics - MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food by Mold
Keely Adler and added
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.
from Numbers Don't Lie by Vaclav Smil
Jimmy Cerone added
Wild that something simple could work. But also wild that something as simple as changing our eating habits is so damn hard.
- 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
from Plant Based Meats Do More to Address Climate Change Than Green Buildings or Zero-Emission Cars by DAMIAN CARRINGTON
Mike Tannenbaum added