{"id":43067,"date":"2019-01-22T06:22:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T11:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43067"},"modified":"2019-01-22T06:22:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T11:22:51","slug":"eating-clean-green-and-anthropocene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43067","title":{"rendered":"Eating Clean, Green and Anthropocene"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Analysis\/2019\/01\/18\/Clean-Green-Anthropocene\/\">Eating Clean, Green and Anthropocene<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Sci<strong>entists say our diets must evolve. Canada could lead the way.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Analysis\/2019\/01\/18\/Beans-Great-Food-Transformation.jpg\" alt=\"Beans-Great-Food-Transformation.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Dig into the \u2018Great Food Transformation.\u2019&nbsp;Photo via Shutterstock.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Adding a vice to a culture is always easier than removing it. Consider, as examples, alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and the hamburger. Despite all we know about the harm we do to ourselves and others by indulging in these vices, we persist in them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, however, Canada is facing serious pressure to scale back on one of those vices \u2014 the hamburger and the whole spectrum of red meat. We can expect pushback from beef producers in Alberta and elsewhere, but we may also find powerful support from most Canadian farmers. That\u2019s because Canadian agriculture can play a decisive part in improving global health, saving lives, and slowing climate change \u2014 while enriching our farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pressure comes from a new report by the EAT-Lancet \u201cCommission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems,\u201d published in the British medical journal&nbsp;<em>The Lancet<\/em>. Titled&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(18)31788-4\/fulltext?utm_campaign=tleat19&amp;utm_source=hub_page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Food in the Anthropocene<\/a>, the commission report argues that we\u2019ve been digging our own graves with our unsustainable gluttony, and only making matters worse for the climate and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now, the report says, \u201cmore than 820 million people have insufficient food and many more consume an unhealthy diet that contributes to premature death and morbidity.\u201d And to produce this dreadful food we are damaging or destroying local ecosystems and threatening the Earth system itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By 2050, 10 billion of us will be on the planet, enduring an ever-increasing burden of non-communicable diseases like diabetes and heart disease, while greenhouse-gas emissions increase and agricultural production suffers from nitrogen and phosphorus pollution and scarcity of clean water. Switching to healthy diets would have dramatic benefits, starting with the saving of about 11 million lives a year. That\u2019s 30,000 people a day, or 1,255 an hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eating Clean, Green and Anthropocene Scientists say our diets must evolve. Canada could lead the way. Adding a vice to a culture is always easier than removing it. Consider, as examples, alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and the hamburger. Despite all we know about the harm we do to ourselves and others by indulging in these vices, [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[1208,103,11528,319,1912],"class_list":["post-43067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-anthropocene","tag-canada","tag-crawford-kilian","tag-food","tag-food-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43067","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=43067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43068,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43067\/revisions\/43068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}