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Eat Less Meat to Save Ourselves.<\/a><\/h3>\n
A report has been released by the U.N.<\/a>, in which it is urged that we reduce consumption of meat and dairy products as a means to mitigate climate change, hunger and fuel poverty\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0It is stressed that food, transportation and housing must be made more sustainable if we seriously intend to ameliorate biodiversity loss and climate change, and as a matter of urgency. Some 30% of global CO2 emissions is a result of internationally traded goods, while the mining sector uses 7% of the world’s energy: a fraction that is expected to increase in line with “growth”, which has serious connotations regarding international policy. A doubling of income is predicted to cause an 81% increase in CO2 emissions, which is an alarming prospect in the context of the rising population, predicted to be over 9 billion by 2050. 70% of all the world’s freshwater consumption is taken by agriculture, which also accounts for 38% of the total use of land, and 14% of global greenhouse gas emissions. It has been estimated that it will be necessary to\u00a0increase food production by 70% in 2050<\/a>\u00a0if the population of the world is to be fed, but its expected increase from\u00a07.3 billion now<\/a>\u00a0to perhaps\u00a09.6 billion in 2050<\/a>\u00a0will overwhelm any efficiency gains in agriculture. The production of animal products is particularly demanding in terms of land for grazing animals, and water, and a rising global middle class which is increasingly meat-hungry.<\/p>\n

The above 70% increase in food production assumes that the western diet\u00a0will spread<\/a>\u00a0to the Global South, with no reduction in consumption by the northern nations. 30-40% of cereals are presently fed to animals, which could rise to 50% if levels of meat and dairy consumption increase as predicted. It has been\u00a0reckoned<\/a>that 3.5 billion additional people could be fed if all cereals were given over for human consumption.<\/div>\n

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Eat Less Meat to Save Ourselves. A report has been released by the U.N., in which it is urged that we reduce consumption of meat and dairy products as a means to mitigate climate change, hunger and fuel poverty\u00a0\u00a0It is stressed that food, transportation and housing must be made more sustainable if we seriously intend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[8755,113,141,1004,8752,8604,319,8754,8756,8005,1263,822,826],"class_list":["post-11919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-animal-feed","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-co2","tag-dairy","tag-energy-balance","tag-food","tag-fresh-water","tag-meat","tag-meat-consumption","tag-transportation","tag-un","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11920,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11919\/revisions\/11920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}