Thursday, November 3, 2022

Industrial agriculture and climate change

 Meanwhile, back to ongoing disastrous Climate Change, here is from a report released by some of the largest corporate agricultural giants:

Food production is responsible for a third of all planet-heating gases emitted by human activity 

Agriculture is the world’s largest industry. Pasture and cropland occupy around 50% of the planet’s habitable land and uses about 70% of fresh water supplies

Small, local food systems still feed most of the people on the planet and the real threat is that the industrial system is expanding at the expense of the truly sustainable system.

It’s not just the fossil fuel industry driving us toward an uninhabitable planet. Industrial farming has fed billions and now needs to pivot to regenerative farming. 

The report is signed by Bayer, Mars, McCain Foods, McDonald’s, Mondelez, Olam, PepsiCo, Waitrose and others”

It is not just fossil fuels making parts of our world uninhabitable, industrial agriculture needs to pivot to regenerative farming