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Bruce Friedrich: The next global agricultural revolution

In 2019, humanity received a warning: 30 of the world's leading scientists released the results of a massive three-year study into global agriculture and declared that meat production is destroying our planet and jeopardizing global health.

One of the study's authors explained that "humanity now poses a threat to the stability of the planet ...

nothing less than a new global agricultural revolution." As somebody who's spent the last two decades advocating a shift away from industrial meat production,I wanted to believe that this clarion call was going to make a difference.

The thing is, I've seen this sort of thing again and again and again for decades.

Here's 2018 from the journal "Nature,"2017 from "Bioscience Journal," 2016 from the National Academy of Sciences.

The main point of these studies tends to be climate change.

But antibiotic resistance represents just as big of a threat.

We are feeding massive doses of antibiotics to farm animals.

These antibiotics are then mutating into superbugs that threaten to render antibiotics obsolete within all of our lifetimes.

You want a scare?

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