![]() ![]() Journalist and food writer, Joanna Blythman said that she had looked into the fashionable plant-based diet and certainly would not be adopting it because it didn’t meet her criteria for health or living within planetary limits. But data from a paper George has previously used himself shows that he exaggerates by 400%, based on the most extreme example, and 2200% for the best examples from the UK.Īnother claim that, although roughly twice as much land is used worldwide for grazing as for crop production, it provides just 1.2% of the protein we eat, was also challenged by Young whose own calculations found that UK grassland actually produces 25.6% – 31.5% of protein per person per day, not 1.2%. In one example Richard showed how in the Channel 4 programme Apocalypse Cow, George claims that the carbon footprint of eating 4 kg of beef is greater than that of flying from London to New York and back. In a series of examples Richard showed how George has built his position on exaggerated claims, occasional misquoting of a source and global statistics not relevant to the UK. But strongly disagreed with him about grazing animals, which we see as central to the development of sustainable food systems, especially in countries like the UK where grass grows exceptionally well and over half our farmland is unsuitable for cropping. Sustainable Food Trust (SFT) policy director, Richard Young, said the SFT agreed with almost all of George’s genuine concerns about the impact of intensive agriculture and the serious threat from global warming. He also gave his enthusiastic backing to hi-tech solutions and argued that lab-grown meat and protein produced from hydrogen and air are the future and will be able to feed us all in a few years without farmland being used, except for the growing of organic vegetables from stockless systems. Keynote speaker, George Monbiot set out his case that we need to get rid of all farm animals in order to allow the natural world to regenerate and prevent irreversible climate change.
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