Not all meat is created equal: How diet changes can sustain world’s food production

Jay OwenSustainability News

“Ethical Markets welcomes all new approaches to reforming the global food system which we show is unsustainably -based on the planet’s 3% of freshwater and focused on five monocultured crops traded in commodity markets and excessive livestock -raised meat diets, which  create 14.5 % of global greenhouse gases and destroy forests, while  ignoring all the nutritious crops grown by local farmers, including the many that thrive on saltwater (see details in our Green Transition Scoreboard ® reports (free downloads at www.ethicalmarkets.com))  .

Hazel Henderson, Editor“

 

Not all meat is created equal: How diet changes can sustain world’s food production

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190906172458.htm

 

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