Toward Sustainable Food for All

Key Takeaways - Theirs

• Governments incentivize the production of energy-dense but nutrient-cheap foods to the tune of billions of dollars in annual farm subsidies. (IE: Calories not nutrition; concentration of wealth.)
• By releasing stored carbon into the atmosphere, tropical deforestation contributes about 20% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Overall, food system emissions represent more than one-third of greenhouse gas emissions.
• Farming is the world’s greatest cause of habitat destruction, the greatest cause of the global loss of wildlife, and the greatest cause of the global extinction crisis.
• Some estimates peg industrial farming’s annual environmental cost at $3 trillion a year. This rivals the trillions of dollars in costs that burning fossil fuels inflicts annually upon the environment.

Key Takeaway - Ours

• More local producers and shorter supply lines can "move the needle" toward food equity.
• We and you can do better. Where do you want to start?