BEFORE2030 - A LIVABLE FUTURE For people, planet, and all life
ENCOURAGE PLANT-BASED EATING
Why this? I have already touched on some of it, but let’s make it easy at a glance:
More sustainable with population growth, climate impacts, resource and water depletion
Healthier lifestyle
Reduce the chance of zoonotic disease outbreaks from the edible wild animals and domestic animal market
Cheaper
Reduces deforestation
Cuts fossil fuel use
Plants are less complex to produce than animals
Opportunities for innovation (indoor vertical farms, urban rooftop mini-farms, etc.)
With relocalization of food system, many opportunities for food innovators and processors local businesses
Safer food supply
More compostable waste stream (even at the household level)
Less animal waste and the huge negative ecological impacts associated with that
Less negative impact on the antibiotic supply
Less methane gas production
Further info:
Crescent Dragonwagon, Bean by Bean: a cookbook, 2011
Celine Steen and Tamasin Noyes, The Great Vegan Protein Book, 2015
Why this? I have already touched on some of it, but let’s make it easy at a glance:
More sustainable with population growth, climate impacts, resource and water depletion
Healthier lifestyle
Reduce the chance of zoonotic disease outbreaks from the edible wild animals and domestic animal market
Cheaper
Reduces deforestation
Cuts fossil fuel use
Plants are less complex to produce than animals
Opportunities for innovation (indoor vertical farms, urban rooftop mini-farms, etc.)
With relocalization of food system, many opportunities for food innovators and processors local businesses
Safer food supply
More compostable waste stream (even at the household level)
Less animal waste and the huge negative ecological impacts associated with that
Less negative impact on the antibiotic supply
Less methane gas production
Further info:
Crescent Dragonwagon, Bean by Bean: a cookbook, 2011
Celine Steen and Tamasin Noyes, The Great Vegan Protein Book, 2015
