This post originally appeared on the Vitality Institute blog.
By Adriana Selwyn and Derek Yach
“The raising of cattle requires much more land than the raising of cereals, fruits, nuts and vegetables, yielding the same amount of food value. As this will be a most important economic problem during the next hundred years, the question of the character of our food supply should be most carefully considered in the study of the conservation of natural resources.”
These words, highlighting the link between unsustainable consumption of animal products and the consequences on human, economic and environmental health, featured in the 1909 Report on National Vitality: Its Wastes and Conservation, commissioned by President Roosevelt as part of a larger examination into the conservation of natural resources. Today, over 100 years later, having failed to heed this advice, we are faced with a global nutrition crisis.
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