Plant Based Diets Will End World Hunger

Recently, the EA-Lancet Commission released a report explaining the drastic decline of meat consumption.

In their report released on Jan 16, the EAT-Lancet Commission concluded that a plant-based diet with minimal animal-based products could solve the worldwide hunger problem and keep the environment safer.

EAT is a Sweden-based non-profit foundation that financed the report developed over 30 experts from across the world. This report has evoked mixed reactions since it suggests significant changes to global agricultural practices and current eating habits. The report proposes a viable agriculture system to nourish 10 billion individuals by 2050 while curbing landscape degradation and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions.

The agricultural land expansion should be abolished, and international policies should be placed on land use, biodiversity preservation, and reforestation by protecting and sustaining half of the Earth’s ecosystems.

To attain the climate change goals established in the Paris Agreement, the worldwide food system has become a net carbon sink by 2040, facilitating phosphorous recycling, global redistribution of the use of phosphorous and nitrogen fertilizer, efficient water uses, changes in feed and crop management, and boosting agricultural systems’ biodiversity.

Although the report does not illustrate how to accomplish the recommendations, it talks more about a worldwide plant-based diet for better health and wellbeing.