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Americans Need to Eat 90% Less Meat for Planet to Survive, Report Says - Global Citizen
The average American is on track to eat 222.2 pounds of red meat and chicken this year.
Humanity’s growing meat consumption is undermining the planet’s ability to produce food, according to a new report published in the science journal Nature.
In fact, humans need to eat 75% less red meat, 90% less pork, and half as many eggs on average to both prevent the environment-ravaging consequences of climate change and ensure that there will be enough food to go around when the global population surges to 10 billion later in the century.
“It is pretty shocking,” Marco Springmann at the University of Oxford, who led the research team, told the Guardian. “We are really risking the sustainability of the whole system. If we are interested in people being able to farm and eat, then we better not do that.”
The average American is on track to eat 222.2 pounds of red meat and chicken this year.
Humanity’s growing meat consumption is undermining the planet’s ability to produce food, according to a new report published in the science journal Nature.
In fact, humans need to eat 75% less red meat, 90% less pork, and half as many eggs on average to both prevent the environment-ravaging consequences of climate change and ensure that there will be enough food to go around when the global population surges to 10 billion later in the century.
“It is pretty shocking,” Marco Springmann at the University of Oxford, who led the research team, told the Guardian. “We are really risking the sustainability of the whole system. If we are interested in people being able to farm and eat, then we better not do that.”