{"id":744,"date":"2010-06-11T16:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T20:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=744"},"modified":"2010-06-11T16:00:45","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T20:00:45","slug":"un-report-calls-for-global-dietary-shift-away-from-animal-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/11\/un-report-calls-for-global-dietary-shift-away-from-animal-products\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Report Calls for Global Dietary Shift Away from Animal Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a new report entitled <i>Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Consumption And Production<\/i>, UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) calls for a global dietary shift away from animal products in the face of these findings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Agricultural production accounts for a staggering 70% of the global freshwater consumption, 38% of the total land use, and 14% of the world&#8217;s greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the conclusions of the report:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Impacts from agriculture are expected to increase substantially due to population growth, increasing consumption of animal products. Unlike fossil fuels, it is difficult to look for alternatives: people have to eat. A substantial reduction of impacts would only be possible with a substantial worldwide diet change, away from animal products.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unep.org\/resourcepanel\/documents\/pdf\/PriorityProductsAndMaterials_Report_Full.pdf\">Click here<\/a> for the full UNEP report (112-page PDF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new report entitled Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Consumption And Production, UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) calls for a global dietary shift away from animal products in the face of these findings: Agricultural production accounts for a staggering 70% of the global freshwater consumption, 38% of the total land use, and 14% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}