Jennifer Clapp recently co-authored a letter to the editor in the Financial Times criticizing a new report from the FAO calling for greater meat and dairy production:
There are some undernourished populations who indeed lack essential nutrition that may be provided by accessing more eggs, dairy and meat — but food should be produced locally where it’s needed, not from unsustainable factory farms far across the sea.
Instead of trying to appease the livestock industry, the FAO should redouble its ambition and turn the 1.5C road map into a genuine plan to get us off the high pollution, high fossil fuel, high hunger track we’re on — in consultation with those most affected by today’s unjust and unsustainable food systems.
