We are shaped by our surroundings In a new study at a French university, where the availability of veg options was doubled, only 6% of customers noticed the menu change, yet veg meal choices increased by 96% 4-week experiment of 37,299 main meal choices: ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Background Changing the food environment is an important public health lever for encouraging sustainable food choices. Targeting the availability of vegetarian main meals served in cafeterias substant...
ā¬700M just approved for Dutch farmers to stop their livestock farming in priority areas and rewild This is a smart way forward to support farmers to drawdown carbon & restore biodiversity that financially (& intrinsically) is worth more in the long run. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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Happy to be quoted in this article about a new study that analyzed GHG intensity of agriculture. Although it has been decreasing for decades, the decrease may be slowing and absolute GHGs from the ag/food sector still have not peaked. Lower-carbon farming, reduced food waste, diet shifts all needed.
If we want to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from food production, we have to make it more efficient as the global population grows ā and that isn't happening
New study shows decent living standards for 8.5 billion people would require only 30% of current global resource and energy use, leaving a substantial surplus for additional consumption, public luxury, scientific advancement, and other social investments. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Some narratives in international development hold that ending poverty and achieving good lives for all will require every country to reach the levels ā¦
The New Merchants of Doubt report is now out, covering meat & dairy industry tactics to prevent accountability. changingmarkets.org/wp-content/u... 4 continents, 15 months of research, 22 companies, & 15 researchers, including myself. Dig in to see what is preventing positive food system changes.
Nothing else we do rivals the land footprint of the global food system. āā¦the food system dominates our planet. And animals dominate our food system.ā drawdown.org/news/insight...
It surprises many people to learn that the food we eat, the farms that grow it, and the landscapes weāve cleared all contribute to climate change. And contribute in a big way.Unfortunately, policymake...
Food production is the biggest single pressure on our planet. And yet farming practices have deep-seated cultural ties and major status-quo lobbies. New from me on the real regenerative agriculture: www.corporateknights.com/category-foo...
Organic agriculture has become synonymous with spreading manure. Veganic farming is cultivating a greener path.
āA shift toward plant-based foods is a multiple win for climate, nature, and animal welfare. Shifts between or within animal products often lead to trade-offsā Well done report & I can think of a few major orgs who arenāt ready to offer full plant-based and struggle assessing āwhat is better meat?ā
New report: Food providers in N. America & Europe are looking at shifting what they serve in a more plant-based direction for climate & other reasons. They are also wondering, for the meat they do continue to serve, how could it be sourced in ways that support these goals? We dug in to this q. š§Ŗ 1/
New research finds meat production methods which are better for animals aren't always better for the planet, and vice-versa. How can we balance the trade-offs?
China is the biggest producer & consumer of meat now & this one deal by President Lula may single-handedly shift the Amazon from a net sink to a net emitter of planet-warming emissions. Theyāll spin this with an economic story & meat vouchers for the poor. www.scmp.com/news/world/a...
The Brazilian president, along with Wesley and Joesley Batista, visited a JBS factory that is set to make the first shipment of meat to China as part of a new deal.
82% of the EUās farm subsidies go to animal-based foods that make up 84% of EUās food-related GHGs yet supply just 35% of their calories. This makes animal-rich foods artificially cheap & externalizes impacts to taxpayers. New study: www.nature.com/articles/s43...drive.google.com/file/d/11gq4...
