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
Land use choices also have a significant impact on current and future food availability. For example, in the U.S. alone, “replacing all animal-based items with plant-based replacement diets can add enough food to feed 350 million additional people” from the same land.
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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.
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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