Oxford researchers have quantified the benefits of the world becoming vegetarian, writes Marco Springmann. Their study shows that simple changes - like moving to diets low in meat and high in fruit and vegetables - could lead to significant reduction in mortality and health care costs, while cutting food sector greenhouse gas emissions by two thirds.
… shows that simple changes - like moving to diets low in meat and high in fruit and … that changes towards more plant-based diets in line with the WHO's global dietary guidelines could avert 5m-8m deaths …
How do you solve a problem like deforestation? By a change of diet, writes Laura Kehoe. Scientists have discovered that we can feed the world and stop destroying forests by eating less meat. If we all went vegetarian that would reduce deforestation by 94%. And if we went the whole way to veganism enough land would be freed up for a new forest the size of the Amazon, and allow a widespread shift to organic farming systems.
… a problem like deforestation? By a change of diet, writes Laura Kehoe. Scientists have … needed for farming, livestock feed and human diets. They found that "deforestation is not a … circumstances." For example, meat-heavy diets were not compatible with lower yields …
News headlines today suggest that a UN report on glyphosate residues has given the controversial herbicide a clean bill of health, writes Georgina Downs. But that's seriously misleading: the panel concludes that exposure to the chemical in food is unlikely to cause cancer. But that does not apply to those exposed to it occupationally or who live near sprayed fields.
… risk to humans from exposure through the diet ." [1] This is clearly only referring to … risk to consumers from exposure through the diet, and so is not regarding the higher level … conclusions relate to exposure through the diet - that is very important ... It is not a …
India's food system, essentially clean just a generation ago, has been comprehensively contaminated with sugar, bad fats, synthetic additives, GMOs and pesticides under the country's neoliberal 'great leap forwards', writes Colin Todhunter. The result? a surge in obesity, diabetes and cancer incidence, but no let-up in the under-nutrition of those too poor to join in the over-consumption.
… sedentary lifestyles and/or certain types of diet, not least modern Western-style … nutritious and wholesome traditional diets, there is little doubt that due to the … in growing and processing the food we eat, diet can be a (major) contributory factor in …
There's no such thing as 'healthy food' if it's not produced by sustainable farming systems on living soils, Patrick Holden told the recent 'Food: The Forgotten Medicine' conference. But after 70 years of industrial farming, there's a huge job to be done to restore our depleted soils and the impoverished genetic diversity of our seeds and crops.
… the people of India to adopt western diets. Fortunately, Howard had the … for much of the year were subsisting on a diet of blood, fresh meat and milk. They … whether a health promoting and sustainable diet should include meat. Better food policy …
The real reason why 'golden rice' remains uncultivated after a 20 year effort is its poor agronomic performance, write Angelika Hilbeck & Hans Herren. But beyond that, the very idea of golden rice as a 'solution' to Vitamin A deficiency fails to recognise the real causes of malnutrition - poverty, hunger and poor diet. How will golden rice reach poor children in the first place? And will they ever get the rich, oily diet they need to assimilate its fat-soluble nutrients?
… of malnutrition - poverty, hunger and poor diet. How will golden rice reach poor children … place? And will they ever get the rich, oily diet they need to assimilate its fat-soluble … which, in conjunction, make up a healthy diet. These contributing factors differ …
The way food is produced has a profound impact on its nutritional profile, according to research published in the British Journal of Nutrition. Not only is organic farming better for animal welfare, the environment and wildlife, writes Peter Melchett, but organic meat, dairy, fruit and vegetables all have tangible health benefits for the people who eat them.
… require that at least 60% of an animal's diet must come from forage (grazing or eating … shows that the combined clover / grass diet used by organic farmers plays a large … facts. First, organic standards require a diet high in grass and clover, and extensive …
Agroecology is key to retaking control over food, farming and land from the 'monstrous machine' of agribusiness, biotech, big finance and 'free trade', writes Colin Todhunter, as it represents a truly viable alternative to agriculture for corporate profit. But such are the powers ranged against the world's small farmers that it must be supported by a broad-based, global people's movement.
… unhealthy and poisoned with chemicals and diets are becoming less diverse. There is a … market, regardless of farmers' needs or the dietary requirements of local rural markets. … if the health concerns linked to shifting diets had been integrated into the design of …
Bayer's $66 billion takeover of Monsanto represents another big click on the ratchet of corporate power over farming and food, writes Colin Todhunter. With the 'big six' of global agribusiness now set to turn into the 'even bigger three', farmers and consumers are facing more GMOs and pesticides, less choice, and deeper price gouging. Agroecology has never looked more attractive.
… in the US now consume a largely corn-based diet: a less diverse diet than in the past, which is high in … food . This health-damaging 'American obesity diet' and the agricultural practices …
Global food production may need to double over the next century to feed a growing world population, writes Tim Radford - just as yields crops in major crop-growing areas fall due to higher temperatures. But there is another way: to build sustainability into our food production and consumption.
… time. However, this would mean a change of diet for Western nations, and reducing meat … especially with a shift towards a plant-based diet . And as science works by replication, …
It looked like such a good idea: take the pressure off wild fish stocks by growing GM oilseeds that produce health-enhancing long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, writes Claire Robinson. But as a new study has established, those fish oils, novel in terrestrial ecosystems, cause wing deformities in cabbage white butterflies. Yet a third open field trial of these GM crops could soon be under way.
… as their wild counterparts, which enjoy a diet naturally rich in these oils. But as fish … ever been exposed to these molecules in their diets. Some might rejoice that such GM … scope of potential effects that access to dietary EPA and DHA during the larval period …
Food has never been more affordable for middle class families in rich countries. But it comes at a high cost: the impact of industrial food production on health, environment and society has never been greater as Patrick Holden explained to Emily Lewis-Brown. Now the real cost of food US production will be examined in a ground-breaking conference in San Francisco.
… we find that our food systems are generating diets which we pay for many times over in … the obesity epidemic caused by industrialised diets. "And there are significant social costs …
No matter how concerned we are about the quality of food we and our families eat, we can be sure governments are putting corporate profit first, writes Sally Beare. But we - Mums in particular - still have our power as consumers to push supermarkets and other retailers into going GM-free and keeping toxic agrochemicals out of the food chain. Let's use it!
… seen reports that animals consuming a GMO diet may be suffering from ill health due to their diets. We consider this to be a health risk to …
Meat is responsible for about 30% of all 'wasted calories', writes Mike Berners-Lee, so with food causing a third of all greenhouse emissions, eating less meat is one of the most effective things we can do to reduce our climate impact. But no less important is to switch from high to low-impact meats - and to do all we can to cut food waste in our kitchens.
… 1,700 of these are fed to animals. The animal diet is further supplemented with a … So the inefficiency of our meat and dairy diet leads to a loss of 1,200 calories per … Our studies of the footprint of UK dietary choice have shown that going …
Perhaps all the 'do gooders' busy forcing industrial models of agriculture onto poor but independent African farmers really do think they are helping them, writes Colin Todhunter. But if so they are deeply deluded. All they will achieve is the takeover of export-oriented agribusiness and GMOs, the destruction of agroecological farming systems, and a future of debt and landlessness.
… strategies towards a permanent solution: diet diversification through locally available … can better contribute to healthy and diverse diets and empower people to access and produce …
Apparent 'victories' in the fight against toxic chemicals - like the EU's failure to re-approve glyphosate yesterday - are illusory, writes Jonathan Latham. The real problem is not one of specific 'bad actors', but the entire system that allows new, likely to be toxic compounds to pollute the environment in near-total ignorance of their impacts. It's time to take our campaigning to a whole new level.
… in other environments or if it eats other diets. Numerous scientific experiments have … of a specified age and are fed standardised diets. The results are then extrapolated to … al., 2014 ). So too do rats fed non-standard diets ( M ainigi and Campbell, 1981 ) Even …
Cornell student Robert Schooler was shocked at the pro-GMO propaganda emanating from Cornell University and it's Gates-funded 'Alliance for Science'. But rather than just complain about it, he decided to fight back - with his popular 'GMOWTF' website and an important lecture series this fall by GMO experts on the Cornell campus - the ones that Cornell has been ignoring for years.
… that I quickly transitioned to a plant-based diet. This personal dietary shift had profound benefits, dispelled … for this course. Frances Moore Lappé , of 'Diet for a Small Planet' and 'World Hunger: 10 …
Koide Hiroaki has spent his entire career as a nuclear engineer, and has become a central figure in Japan's movement for the abolition of nuclear power plants. He met with Katsuya Hirano and Hirotaka Kasai to discuss the catastrophic nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima Daaichi in March 2011, and the crimes and cover-ups committed both before and after the event.
… after the accident you testified in the Diet presenting data indicating the … Koide: By 'speak publicly' you mean in the Diet or in some other official government … cafeteria at TEPCO or in the cafeteria for Diet members in the Diet building. But that …
The British Veterinary Association has just launched its long-anticipated Animal Welfare Strategy, writes Mark Jones - and very welcome it is too. But it's also completely incompatible with the BVA's support for England's cruel and utterly unscientific badger culls. It's time for an urgent rethink.
… welfare needs: suitable environment; suitable diet; to be able to exhibit normal behaviour …
GMOs have been in our diets for about 20 years, writes Rupert Read. Proof that they are safe? No way - it took much, much longer to discover the dangers of cigarettes and transfats, dangers that are far more visible than those of GMOs. On the scale of nature and ecology, 20 years is a pitifully short time. To sustain our human future, we have to think long term.
… Technology cig-cut.jpg GMOs have been in our diets for about 20 years, writes Rupert Read. …
The Soil Association is calling on bread producers and supermarkets to stop making and selling bread products that contain traces of Glyphosate. LAURA BRIGGS reports.
… risk to humans from exposure through the diet, when focused on the occurrence of …
BASF are to halve their GM research and development and reduce the time spent on developing these technologies, writes Peter Melchett. Given the many problems that GM agriculture is facing, and that new non-GE technologies offer such valuable benefits as increased crop yields, does BASF's announcement spell the beginning of the end of GM crops?
… absorb more protein when it is used in their diet. Most GM crops grown around the world are …
President Obama should overcome political constraints in Hiroshima this week to say 'sorry' for the nuclear bombs, writes Linda Pentz Gunter. Even more important, he must change his stance on nuclear weapons - abandoning the US's $1 trillion WMD modernization program and lifting the threat of world-destroying nuclear conflict.
… at around 5 years old, and despite a steady diet of Grimm's Fairy Tales, I cautiously …
Rice-eating peoples are very particular about the rice their diets are based on, writes Ted Greiner. And they have a strong aversion to yellow grains, the tell-tale sign of the deadly mould that causes beri-beri disease. That alone makes GMO 'Golden Rice' a non starter; 107 Nobel Laureates had better start eating their words.
… are very particular about the rice their diets are based on, writes Ted Greiner. And …