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Feed = Food? Do livestock really compete with humans for food?
Can we feed up to 10 billion people in 2100 by improving crop yields, reducing deforestation, and reducing meat and dairy consumption? These solutions are among those suggested by Jonathan Foley at the...
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Forget Widgets and Factory Farms – Beef Production is the Circle of Life
The Chipotle short film “Back to the Start” which was featured in a commercial break during the GRAMMY awards on Sunday has been one of the most discussed topics on Facebook and Twitter in the past...
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All Aboard the “Eat Less Meat” Bandwagon
One of the main criteria for publishing scientific research is that it should be novel, yet not a week goes by without yet another paper concluding that we have to reduce meat consumption in order to...
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Can We Please Have Calls for Moderating Meat Consumption… in Moderation?
Do we need to moderate meat consumption in order to feed the world in 2050? Given beef producers’ track record of ingenuity, it’s possible but not probable. A Twitter follower (Tweep? Twriend?...
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Are We Producing More Food…and Feeding Fewer People?
I’m ashamed to admit that the picture to the left is of the lunch table that a media colleague and I left last week – after spending an hour lamenting the fact that in the US, 40% of food is wasted...
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Scare Tactics – Why Do So Many “Public Health Experts” Promote Fear vs. Food?
How many of us are motivated by fear every single day? We’d like to think that we’re lucky enough to live in a society where we don’t feel afraid. In contrast to inhabitants of many war-torn regions we...
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