Sentences with phrase «global animal consumption»
This year's event has partnered with international food awareness organisation ProVeg, which aims to reduce global animal consumption by 50 per cent by 2040.
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As emerging middle classes in places like China and India adopt Western - style diets, global consumption of animal protein skyrockets.
The comprehensive report «Less is more: Reducing meat and dairy for a healthier life and planet» advocates decreasing global production and consumption of animal products in order to reduce the negative impacts on health and the environment.
Like MFM, the intention of the World Meatless Lunch initiative is to help people take small steps towards a greater goal: reducing global meat consumption and livestock production for the sake of human health, animal welfare and the environment.
At a time global health experts are urging people to eat less meat to combat chronic diseases, live exporters are actively encouraging increased meat consumption by pushing more animals into more countries.
The team says halving global consumption of animal products by eating more insects or imitation meat would free up 1680 million hectares of land — 70 times the size of the UK.
Imposing a 50 % tax on antibiotics for food animals could decrease global consumption by more than 30 %, and at the same time generate revenues from $ 1.7 to 4.6 billion, which could be invested into research for new antibiotics or improvements to farm hygiene.
By reducing the animal product contribution in the diet, global green water (rainwater) consumption decreases up to 21 % while for blue water (irrigation water) the reductions would be up to 14 %.
They do particularly pick on processed meats, but in terms of global crises: «There is a... tsunami brewing, namely, we are seeing the confluence of growing constraints on water, energy, and food [supplies] combined with the rapid shift toward greater consumption of all animal source foods,» which, they note, are «inefficient, wasteful, and polluting.»
Animal agriculture is responsible for a huge part of the global warming and there's no way we'll be able to reach the climate goals and save the planet without reducing our meat consumption.
With just 11 weeks to go until China's Yulin dog meat festival, animal groups from across China gathered in Beijing to stand in solidarity with Humane Society International's global #StopYulin campaign to end the annual event, where an estimated 10,000 dogs and countless cats are brutally slaughtered for human consumption.
It would be cool to see a wide collection of maps covering many different issues, not just climate and food production, but, for instance, poverty and wealth, arms production and war, clothing production and leisure time, education levels, consumption, production, health, population growth and decline, movement of immigrants, human rights, animal populations, housing ownership, housing starts, anything basically which can be measured in a visual map... not just for the US but as global maps, collected on pages where you could drag them around to sit on top of each other and try and make sense of the various impacts...
The rising food demand is not just a result of the global population growth [although the planet can expect (UN medium variant) an estimated 2.3 billion extra people in 2050 — as no one even mentions the possibility of policy on that front]-- but also of an increasingly decadent average food consumption pattern, in which (next to globalisation of food production) the rising consumption of animal protein plays a key role.
Meat and dairy generate more global greenhouse gas emissions than the entire transportation sector, yet reducing the consumption of animal products through institutional purchasing remains a largely untapped yet highly effective, cost - saving approach to mitigating climate change while promoting public health.
The rising global meat consumption and the intensification of animal production systems will put further pressure on the global freshwater resources in the coming decades.