ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE BY CHANGING OUR FOOD SYSTEMS

Up to a third of global greenhouse gas production to-date can be attributed to animal agriculture and food systems, yet most climate change solutions neglect the importance of food systems in climate change mitigation.

In the article, ‘Solving Climate Change Requires Changing Our Food Systems,’ published in the leading scientific journal Oxford Open Climate Change, prominent scientists from around the world propose that the pressing nature of irreversible climate change requires rethinking our food systems. Lead researcher Dr Feigin and her co-authors assert that “we must undertake a global shift to a fundamentally plantbased diet and a gradual global reduction and eventual phaseout of intensive factory farming, the most prolific and damaging form of agriculture.” The Food and Agriculture Organisation in the U.S. estimates that demand for meat will double by 2050, which would require approximately 80% of existing forests and shrubland be converted into land devoted to raising animals. Such a trajectory would have devastating consequences for humans and the planet. “As the…

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