Interest in vegan food and its associated health benefits has been booming across the rich world. A global retreat from meat could have a far-reaching environmental impact.
By 2050 the world’s population could approach 10 billion – and around 60% more food could be needed to feed everyone. The environmental impacts of the food system are daunting its responsible for about a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions and uses about 70% of all freshwater resources, and it occupies about 40% of the Earth’s land surface.
Food rated emissions could increase to 50 percent by 2050 and fill up the total emissions budget that we have in order to avoid dangerous levels of climate change. Interest in vegan food has been booming across the rich world. A major study has put the diet to the test – analyzing an imagined scenario in which the world goes vegan by 2050. If everybody went vegan by 2050 we estimated that food-related greenhouse gas emissions could be reduced by 3/4.
Cows are the biggest emission contributors. Bugs in their digestive system produce methane and deforestation for their pasture releases carbon dioxide – these gases warm the planet. If cows were a country, they’d be the third largest greenhouse gas emitter.
On a night out with friends, Eric tries a new restaurant that takes the dining experience full circle. Set in the not-so-distance, dark future, “Casa de Carne” is a thought-provoking short film about hard choices and hidden truths.
Winner of the 1st Place Tarshis Film Award at the 2019 Animal Film Festival. Written & Directed by Dustin Brown Produced by William Martens & Dustin Brown Executive Producer Chris DeRose Cinematography by Mark Mannschreck Edited by Dustin Brown Associate Producer & 1st AD Nura Ashimova Starring Joe LeMieux, Gintare Bandinskaite, Mantas Valantiejus, Ryan Sherman 2019 Last Chance for Animals. I Am Become Death – Universal Pictures Film Music Artist: Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow Album: Ex Machina Licensed to YouTube by: AdRev for a 3rd Party (on behalf of Universal Pictures Film Music); UMPG Publishing, and 4 Music Rights Societies
Many vegan athletes report that a plant based diet provides them with an edge. Now, a new study backs them up with science! Learn why vegan athletes have a shorter recovery time and how avoiding meat improves the heart by increasing blood flow and reducing inflammation.
