Letters to the editor: April 27: Meat called unhealthy for us, the planet. Plus other letters to the editor

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Once upon a time, intensive animal farming was viewed as a modern way to provide inexpensive food to a hungry postwar population. But it was a solution that created more problems: Eating diets overly rich in animal foods has proven to be disastrous for the environment, the animals being farmed and public health.

Our precarious food system is not a personal issue and it cannot be solved at the personal level by consumers alone. Instead, we are urgently in need of systemic change. Governments must lead in creating policies that ensure our food systems become safe, humane and sustainable. Our future depends on it...................................................................................................................................

But the relevant U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization study looked only at the agricultural operations themselves. An additional 10 to 15 per cent is attributable to deforestation, which is primarily also related to animal agriculture; we cut down “carbon sink” forests primarily in order to grow crops that are to be fed not to us, but to animals we will then eat.

 

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