"Industrial meat is a major source of the emissions causing global warming. Eating it regularly, [#AliciaKennedy] argues, is unsustainable. Yet for many in the United States, meat has long represented security and prosperity; in the 1920s, Republicans promised voters 'a chicken for every pot'."

#LilyMeyer

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/08/no-meat-required-book-review-plant-based-food/675165/

#ClimateChange #IndustrialFood #BigFood #meat #vegetarianism

> the pandemic has revealed how #IndustrialAgriculture contributes to the rise and spread of deadly pathogens by pushing agriculture and extraction further into the forest and by creating densely crowded genetically homogenous domestic livestock populations that are breeding grounds for the emergence of #zoonotic #viruses.. ‘#IndustrialFood’, as a system.. reduces the.. resiliency of farmers and communities.. Major shifts.. needed, not tweaks..
https://www.agroecologynow.com/transformations/
#AgroEcology #Extractivism