Joe McNamee: Saving the planet with sustainable choices

'Almost one third of global emissions arise from food production: methane from cattle; deforestation, especially in the Amazon, to grow animal feed; and fertiliser production'

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The second EAT-Lancet publication on healthy, just, and sustainable food systems, the work of globally renowned scientists and experts, has just landed and it is potent stuff. 

Even if we jettisoned all fossil fuels in the morning, oil, gas, and coal, the current industrial food production models would still be sufficient to tip the climate beyond 1.5C.