![]() ![]() Responding to increased demand for meat and dairy, about 60 per cent of the world’s agricultural land is used for livestock grazing. We can see this throughout the production and consumption process, beginning with how land is used. While progress on reducing hunger has stagnated in the last five years, evidence suggests that the problem we face today is not a lack of food. More to the point: how are we going to feed all these people, without causing more damage? ![]() Forests are cleared to create agricultural space, the atmosphere becomes warmer, diversity is systematically decreased, buffers that protect humans from animal-borne viruses–like COVID-19–are removed, soil and water is contaminated, and plants and animals are infused with substances with precarious effect. Long before it reaches grocery store shelves, the process of production unleashes a multiplicity of factors affecting the length and quality of life on earth. ![]() Worldwide, more than 10 per cent of people are hungry, roughly 25 per cent are overweight or obese, and another 25 per cent–who may also be either underfed or overfed–are micronutrient deficient.įood is not only a matter of eating. ![]()
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