Earthsave Canada’s submission highlights the serious damage that animal agriculture does to the environment, including through greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, water pollution, biodiversity loss, and inefficient use of land and water resources.
The government’s effort to support and accelerate innovation in plant-based foods is exciting and welcome news, as the evidence overwhelmingly shows that producing protein from plants takes far less land, water and energy than producing protein from animals, and of course spares animals from the cruelties inherent in animal agriculture.
The relationship between animal consumption and human illness is well established. The widespread adoption of a plant-based (vegan) diet could protect us against future pandemics.
"Youngsters who learned by watching others also tended to continue manipulating new objects or trying new foods for about 145 minutes after they had closely
Copying others can help young orangutans build a broad diet | New Scientist
Orangutans spend more than eight years learning how to cope on their own, and now we have a clearer idea of how they work out which foods to incorporate into their diet
“Dietary guidelines have enormous potential to shape healthier and more sustainable food systems, but they need to work in the real world. Our findings show
And moving to vegan diets would do far better than even this! "The team modeled what would happen if the world actually switched to sustainable
What happens to the world's farms if everyone eats less beef?
Researchers ran the numbers on a worldwide sustainable-diet transition—and found a food system that looks nothing like today’s.
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