No Protection from Pandemics Unless we Fix our Food Systems
Open letter to the G20 from the EAT Advisory Board.
We are inspired by the recent Leaders’ Pledge for Nature signed by 64 Heads of State and Government around the world.
Resilient recovery from Covid-19 can only be achieved by radically transforming our food systems.
EAT is the science-based global platform for food system transformation.
EAT is in partnership with C40 network which Mayor Bloomberg is head of.
But look Alec Baldwin who will attend the UN Food Systems Summit 2021 is hopeful this new administration will adopt this new diet. He is lumping processed foods with BEEF saying it is unhealthy and also says it is bad for the environment and emits green house gases.
Coordinated, transformational adjustment of policies, regulations and other public sector instruments to make healthy and sustainable food affordable and available for all: there is a whole tool-box of instruments that can be used as best suited in different contexts; including taxes, changes to marketing, zoning regulations, public procurement, preventative healthcare reform, education, research and innovation.
We also urgently need the equivalent of a price on carbon for food system activities that degrade human and environmental health, with social dividends built in to protect vulnerable households
Closed environment and cellular production could play an increasingly important role in reducing the overall environmental footprint of food.
https://eatforum.org/learn-and-discover/no-protection-from-pandemics-unless-we-fix-our-food-systems/
Bottom line they will force us to go vegan.
VIDEO Alec Baldwin 39:05