We Could Feed The World With Sustainable Food If We Stopped Wanting It To Be Pretty

‘Can we farm sustainably? Can we endeavour to produce enough food to feed the world’s growing population in a way that is respectful to animals, and mindful of the stress agriculture places on the land? These are some of the questions discussed at a conference on food sustainability held earlier this month at Bristol’s Big Green Week. The answers to the majority of these questions were, surprisingly, “yes.”
Following the screening of the film, The Milking Parlour, a panel including authors, journalists, artists, filmmakers, and farmers discussed the plausibility that farming can continue in a sustainable way, particularly given continuous global population growth. In brief, members of the group felt that farming, as it stands, is not sustainable. Despite there being enough food crops produced per year to feed the majority of the world’s population, livestock alone consumes 1.3 billion tons of grain, resources some participants feel might be better used in feeding humans.’
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