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
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... 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
We settled on foraging for wild plants and wild fungi. If you could make it nutritionally balanced, that would negatively impact the fewest animals. Beyond that, we started moving down the rankings, and we found that if you can harvest abundant wildlife species in a way that results in a very quick death, that’s going to really yield very few... See more