Sentences with phrase «intensive meat production»

With our population growing and our diets moving to more energy - and grain - intensive meat production, supply was already tight.

Scientific research increasingly demonstrates that large - scale intensive meat production uses disproportionate amounts of land, water, and feed, adds markedly to climate change and is a factor in water pollution and food contamination.

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«Until broader changes sweep through the meat - production system, eating less meat... typically means leading a less resource - intensive life.»

Despite that long record of success, agricultural production is stressed by floods, deforestation, drought, urbanization (land - devouring cities), and a growing appetite for resource - intensive meat.

«Meat» that was once a living animal that has suffered most of its life in an intensive animal production system!

Instead of creating one more body for business - as - usual, governments, funding agencies, and international organizations should be taking bold action: committing to shift resources away from climate - damaging practices of chemical - intensive industrial agriculture and meat production and towards investment in and commitment to agroecology, food sovereignty, and support to small - scale food producers.

In the 60 years since, corn prices fell steadily as output rose, and meat production shifted from diversified, pastured - based systems almost exclusively to corn - intensive, factory - style confinement systems.