Our food systems are helping to destroy the planet. Can we transform them in time?
Ruan Xuefeng/VCG via Getty ImagesBE WARNED: George Monbiot will put you off your dinner. But that is a good thing – indeed, a vital thing. Our diets have to change. More to the point, the way we farm has to change. “Farming,” says Monbiot, a columnist fornewspaper and an environmental activist, “is the most destructive human activity ever to have blighted the Earth.”It is a deliberately provocative statement, of course, but it shows how the myth of the green and pleasant farm.
How about crops? Almost 60 per cent of the calories produced by farmers come from four crops: soya, maize, wheat and rice. Most of the world’s soya – some 86 per cent – is grown in Brazil, Argentina and the US, and three-quarters of soya, much of it grown on former rainforest or the savannah of Brazil’s Cerrado region, in which Monbiot sets out the facts about the planet’s teetering life-support systems, is deeply distressing.
Does Monbiot overestimate not only the willingness of the general public to eat bacteria as their main source of protein, but to entirely change food habits – something at the heart of all cultures?
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