[HTML][HTML] Plant-based animal product alternatives are healthier and more environmentally sustainable than animal products

CJ Bryant - Future Foods, 2022 - Elsevier
There are increasingly strong reasons to move away from industrial animal agriculture for
the good of the environment, animals, our personal health, and public health. Plant-based …

Reducing meat consumption and following plant-based diets: Current evidence and future directions to inform integrated transitions

J Graça, CA Godinho, M Truninger - Trends in Food Science & Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
Background There is increasing consensus that transitioning towards reduced meat
consumption and more plant-based diets is a key feature to address important health and …

Dietary change in high-income nations alone can lead to substantial double climate dividend

Z Sun, L Scherer, A Tukker, SA Spawn-Lee… - Nature Food, 2022 - nature.com
A dietary shift from animal-based foods to plant-based foods in high-income nations could
reduce greenhouse gas emissions from direct agricultural production and increase carbon …

Cropland expansion in the United States produces marginal yields at high costs to wildlife

TJ Lark, SA Spawn, M Bougie, HK Gibbs - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Recent expansion of croplands in the United States has caused widespread conversion of
grasslands and other ecosystems with largely unknown consequences for agricultural …

How psychology can help limit climate change.

KS Nielsen, S Clayton, PC Stern, T Dietz… - American …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has encouraged psychologists to
become part of the integrated scientific effort to support the achievement of climate change …

The carbon opportunity cost of animal-sourced food production on land

MN Hayek, H Harwatt, WJ Ripple, ND Mueller - Nature Sustainability, 2021 - nature.com
Extensive land uses to meet dietary preferences incur a 'carbon opportunity cost'given the
potential for carbon sequestration through ecosystem restoration. Here we map the …

The global food‐energy‐water nexus

P D'Odorico, KF Davis, L Rosa, JA Carr… - Reviews of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Water availability is a major factor constraining humanity's ability to meet the future food and
energy needs of a growing and increasingly affluent human population. Water plays an …

Regulating meat consumption to improve health, the environment and animal welfare

C Bonnet, Z Bouamra-Mechemache, V Réquillart… - Food Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Meat consumption has increased significantly in the last 50 years. This trend raises various
health and environmental issues, as well as moral concerns regarding farm animal welfare …

How necessary and feasible are reductions of methane emissions from livestock to support stringent temperature goals?

A Reisinger, H Clark, AL Cowie… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Agriculture is the largest single source of global anthropogenic methane (CH4) emissions,
with ruminants the dominant contributor. Livestock CH4 emissions are projected to grow …

Current global food production is sufficient to meet human nutritional needs in 2050 provided there is radical societal adaptation

M Berners-Lee, C Kennelly, R Watson… - Elem Sci …, 2018 - online.ucpress.edu
We present a quantitative analysis of global and regional food supply to reveal the flows of
calories, protein and the micro-nutrients vitamin A, iron and zinc, from production through to …