Latest climate change battle may center on food pyramid

Cattle and the environment

GR: Too bad rational thinking has to be a battle.

By Evan Halper, LA Times: “Hoping to nudge governments, advocacy groups have been busily designing mock-ups of what a revamped food pyramid would look like. A rendering by the Italy-based Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition has the traditional [food] pyramid alongside an upside down “Environmental Pyramid.” Beef ranks as the least healthy and least environmentally sound food on pyramids.

“We can’t solve the climate problem with just what we are doing with fossil fuels and energy,” said Doug Boucher, director of climate research at the Union of Concerned Scientists, which is lobbying for changing the pyramid. “Food is a big part of it.”

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“…..It takes 50,000 litres of water to make one kilo of beef. Today, 1 billion people today are hungry. 20 million people will die from malnutrition. Cutting meat by only 10% will feed 100 million people. And eliminating meat will end starvation forever. If everyone ate a Western diet, we would need 2 Planet Earths to feed us. We’ve only got one ~ And she is dying. Greenhouse gas emissions from livestock is 50% greater than transport ~ cars, trains, buses, ships, lorries, the whole lot…..” ~ Philip Wollen excerpt from Australian Debate, “Animals Should be off the Menu”