European Commission4d ago

Supporting the people and ecosystems that sustain us. 🌱

We are working to ensure Europe’s food and water security remains unshakable.

This means:

✔️ ensuring farmers receive fair compensation,
✔️ using open technology to protect our water from pollution, and
✔️ rewarding the restoration of our soils and biodiversity

By valuing our farmers, our bees and our soils, we protect the health of every citizen.

Towards a more resilient, healthy Europe.

Show threadElon Muksis 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇪🇺
@EUCommission https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets
If the world adopted a plant-based diet, we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares

We could reduce the amount of land used for grazing and croplands used to grow animal feed.

Our World in Data
Mar 13 at 2:20pmMoshidon
Show threadLizzie4d ago
@bhasic @EUCommission
I don't disagree with reducing meat consumption in general, but I feel this is a very simplified view as it ignores the many byproducts of animals. Notably but not exhaustively wool, bones, and hide. The reduction in usage of beef and lamb, while a very worthy goal to pursue, would require changing more than just our dietary habits.
Show threadM4d ago
@AngelicAura @bhasic @EUCommission correct and worthwhile pursuit. Veganism is an ideology, not a diet. And it has many layers and facets. No one is saying the road is straight, life isn't simplistic, it's nuanced. It's still the way forward and will require many changes, not just dietary ones.
Show threadKuboF Hromoslav bio/acc 🧬3d ago
@bhasic @EUCommission, yes, and with innovations like #CultivatedMeat #CulturedMeat, dairy-like and egg-like products created by #PrecisionFermentation, we can do it even if people will not stop eating meat 😎
Show threadnLupo  3d ago
@kubofhromoslav @bhasic @EUCommission I would prefer the synthetic food if it's equivalent and overall harm is reduced.
Show threadKuboF Hromoslav bio/acc 🧬2d ago

@nlupo @bhasic @EUCommission, simple cultivated foods, like hamburgers, are already ~100% equivalent to healthy meat (antibiotics and such shit not included 😊). More complex food, like steak with a bone, are on the way, but not there yet.

Reducing suffering is on the way. One of the biggest challenge is to provide a reasonable, vegan cultivation media (blood of aborted bovine fetus is really not acceptable for mass production...).

We need more applied research.