Food in the Anthropocene

Food. A gift and a challenge. Too cheap (considering effort, lives lost, practices, implications to humans, animals and the planet alike), and too expensive and limited (global poverty is real and millions have too little to eat).

Here’s something worth reading. In 2019, the food policy group Eat and the medical journal the Lancet issued a report, Food in the Anthropocene, linking unhealthy diets to the environmental damage caused by the industrial food system. The report argues that changing what we eat and how we produce it is essential not only for our own health but for the health of the planet.

It has apparently become one of the most widely cited, peer-reviewed scientific papers of the past 20 years.

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