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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: rangerrebew on January 17, 2019, 04:23:08 pm

Title: Human diet causing 'catastrophic' damage to planet: study
Post by: rangerrebew on January 17, 2019, 04:23:08 pm

Human diet causing 'catastrophic' damage to planet: study
January 17, 2019 by Marlowe Hood
 

The way humanity produces and eats food must radically change to avoid millions of deaths and "catastrophic" damage to the planet, according to a landmark study published Thursday.

The key to both goals is a dramatic shift in the global diet—roughly half as much sugar and red meat, and twice as many vegetables, fruits and nuts, a consortium of three dozen researchers concluded in The Lancet, a medical journal.

"We are in a catastrophic situation," co-author Tim Lang, a professor at the University of London and policy lead for the EAT-Lancet Commission that compiled the 50-page study, told AFP.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2019-01-human-diet-catastrophic-planet.html#jCp

Title: Re: Human diet causing 'catastrophic' damage to planet: study
Post by: dfwgator on January 17, 2019, 04:24:11 pm

 :facepalm2:

Title: Re: Human diet causing 'catastrophic' damage to planet: study
Post by: aligncare on January 17, 2019, 04:30:21 pm

Ah, where would we be without studies designed by university masterminds to scold us for our own good?

Title: Re: Human diet causing 'catastrophic' damage to planet: study
Post by: kevindavis007 on January 17, 2019, 11:59:25 pm

What a surprise..

Title: Re: Human diet causing 'catastrophic' damage to planet: study
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 18, 2019, 12:14:12 am

Inevitable pollution!!!

Everything people eat turns to poop!!

 ****slapping