With respect to climate change, our diet is a major offender. Describe the current situation and your company’s response to it.
First, our food system contributes to climate change, and it constitutes a whopping 34 per cent of all human-caused emissions. We know that meat, and beef in particular, is the biggest offender, causing nine per cent of emissions. That is huge! Second, climate change is impacting food production as it impacts temperature, rainfall, biodiversity, resource and land availability, insect populations and more. These shifts can lead to massive food security issues for a system that is already seeing rising demand and costs.
With food changing the climate, and the climate changing food, our food system will change no matter what. That we know. My
