In the season finale of Planet Wonder, meteorologist Johanna Wagstaffe explores the impact of what we eat on the warming planet and ways to rethink our relationship with food. She visits a garden plot at Simon Fraser University with food system planning expert Tammara Soma to explore possible ways of lowering emissions from food production.
In this CBC Explore series, Wagstaffe introduces us to the smart people seeking solutions to climate change, connecting different perspectives while travelling through forests, across oceans, up mountains and into laboratories.
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From what I understand, corn is not the best food for cattle. They're healthier eating grasses, weeds and other things. The methane is less from cattle that don't go to the big yards eating corn. Plus regenerative agriculture can raise cattle that don't need antibiotics, worm medicine, nearly as much, if at all.
The diversified crops we can grow ourselves is far higher in nutrition. Just a few herbs in pots, and we literally can taste the difference. Tomatoes, for example, taste watery, bland, and lacking in a deeper flavour when brought to the grocery store from kilometers away.
India is 35% vegetarian.. but they are the #3 greenhouse gas producing country in the world. Tbh I think the trick is to stop factories destroying the planet…food has a very small impact. Maybe the production chain but food itself does not.
Wow! I felt like I was watching a cute little film for school aged children. If you think the problem is just some methane burps from a few cows then I just have to shake my head. Must admit though I'm not surprised considering your attitude throughout the piece, but when I think of the horrors your child will face in the future because of the billions of others with the same attitude, I do question your abilities to handle this complex and very scary topic on the very likely extermination of our species.
Who is this reporter? Do some fact checking or is this report sponsored by animal agriculture?Animal agriculture produces 65% of the world's nitrous oxide emissions which has a global warming impact 296 times greater than carbon dioxide.
Raising livestock for human consumption generates nearly 15% of total global greenhouse gas emissions, which is greater than all the transportation emissions combined. It also uses nearly 70% of agricultural land which leads to being the major contributor to deforestation, biodiversity loss, and water pollution.
Ending our meat and dairy production could pause the growth of greenhouse gas emissions for 30 years, new study suggests. All we need to do is adapt to a plant-based food system!
This reporter could have at least looked up the word vegan."Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of animals, humans and the environment. In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals."
No thanks. I will just stop eating grains, veggies, beans, legumes, seeds, tubers, and wheat. I will just stick with meat, dairy, low carb fruit, herbs, honey, and roots. Way better for the environment and health. Humans are not herbivores.
Do we really have to be vegan? Yikes, don’t think I’ll make it. My opinion is I don’t buy into some things……we’ll learn a lot more very soon
Date:February 1, 2022Source:Stanford University
The worldwide phase out of animal agriculture, combined with a global switch to a plant-based diet, would effectively halt the increase of atmospheric greenhouse gases for 30 years and give humanity more time to end its reliance on fossil fuels, according to a new study by scientists from Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley.
While being vegan has nothing to do with human health or the environment it is still the best option if you care about the planet.
“A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use." Lead author Joseph Poore,University of Oxford study
The study, published in the journal Science, created a huge dataset based on almost 40,000 farms in 119 countries and covering 40 food products that represent 90% of all that is eaten. It assessed the full impact of these foods, from farm to fork, on land use, climate change emissions, freshwater use and water pollution (eutrophication) and air pollution (acidification).
The article was in the Independent: Veganism is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce our environmental impact, study finds.
Also check out this new study.
Published: 20 July 2023
Vegans, vegetarians, fish-eaters and meat-eaters in the UK show discrepant environmental impacts.
The irony in that title
“How vegan do we have to be to save the planet”
Animals are part of the planet are they not and at the moment trillions every year are murdered and done so in an unsustainable way! The large majority of people CAN be vegan and not cause harm to animals and the environment
Zero.
24:24 really need to decolonize those plants.
What a joke.