A more plant-based, low-meat diet has many health and ecological benefits, including requiring less land per person, so it can be farmed more sustainably.
The first three of the five “great turnarounds” in the Club of Rome’s “Earth for All” report address different aspects of inequality.
They go on to list these impacts, which include climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss — including widespread depletion of fish stocks, massive use of freshwater, and pollution from fertilizers, pesticides and animal wastes. But climate and other ecological changes are not the only factors threatening the stability and resilience of what is, in fact, a rather fragile global food system. The system depends upon a relatively small number of countries and staple products, many grown as monocultures with little genetic variety, while an unhealthy and environmentally harmful Western diet is pushed by narrow commercial interests.
Farmlands must become carbon sinks, not carbon emitters. They must enhance, not erode, biodiversity and they must restore the health of the soil. In high-income countries, we over-consume — portion size is too large, fueling obesity — and we discard too much edible food because it is blemished. In low-income countries, better storage, refrigeration and transportation is needed to reduce losses.
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