Opinsy: The world needs to create more sources of sustainable food

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Sanjar Felix says: I agree with this as it helps conserve the environment for the younger generational. Helping the use of more sustainable products can encourage others.

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Elle Elderkin says: We do not need to "create" more sources of sustainable food, which implies some sort of man-made developed and almost palitable food. Instead, we need to sustain the sources of food which we already have on a macro level and encourage people to grow their own sources of food on a mircro level.

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kit spalding says: As the world's population grows we have to be able to sustain it. The west reducing its portions won't help with that - but will reduce drain on other resources (health care) that can be redistributed elsewhere. But whilst on the subject of western diet, I think we need to wean ourselves off exotic food flown thousands of miles and often left to rot in ridiculous quantities on the supermarket shelves. Back to the subject; sadly I think gm will be the only answer to achieve the volume of basic foodstuffs needed to support the worlds demands as populations grow.

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Clifford Smith says: What is not sustainable is the unfair distribution of food. Poor countries should not have to use their prime agricultural land to grow food for those who already have more than enough. As for meat, cattle should not be fed grain. If this means less beef, dearer beef, fine. Not all land can grow crops - use this land for dairy / beef.

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Noodles72 says: By creating more sources of food you increase the worlds population which is the biggest drain on all earths resources

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Pablo Ahijado says: I agree on the idea that's under the statement of this post, but I think that the issue right now might not be so much about creating a sustainable source of food, but more about correcting the "food system" most of us have probably been carried into by modern society. Why in the world do we have to eat so much? Is ordering a steak the size of your cat really necessary, or has it been made into something normal by others (the food industry) so that we feel good after having eaten that stake? I think a change in our diet at a personal level, and trying to involve the ones around us, would decrease directly the amount of food that's wasted daily by all of us as a collective. Once we've realized our personal involvement in this problem, we should start focusing very strongly on developing new sustainable sources of food. Otherwise, we'll just find new ways to keep getting fatter at a lower price and faster pace. Who's with me?

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Buildermorning says: @pabloahap - i'm totally with you. There is no end to our relentless obsession with what we can acquire and food has depressingly become no difference. We have created factories to generate high quantity low quality food - how can this possibly be good for our well-being? We are killing ourselves.

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Smartl45ook says: Most of the arguments tend to rely on notions of political will and whether culturally we're doing the right thing, but the reality of feasibility and economic sustainability is as, if not more, important. And i'm not at all sure we're there yet in.

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Crrazycyan_1 says: The Olympics are proving of surprising benefit for efforts in sustainable food: http://www.examiner.com/article/the-london-games-are-setting-new-worldwide-food-standards

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Toreqa_09 says: This isn't just about Africa though is it. Apparently half of all world food produced is wasted. The ratio doesn't really work, that's heading only way, and its not a good place.

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Fufu says: I'm not really sure synthetic meat is the answer. Given the costs to market of bringing it there etc. - are we really going to start seeing this stuff dropped on to the most needed parts of Africa?

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Cracklechips says: Population growth is only one factor.i'm intrugued by some of the progresses in the world of proper synthetic meat, see this for example: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jun/22/fake-meat-scientific-breakthroughs-research this could be massive.

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Anay Shah says: Seems to me the claim of sustainability would depend on things like population growth....

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Podgrove says: The crops eaten by cattle could feed a lot of people. Only about ten percent of the energy they consume is transferred to those who eat beef. And don´t get me started on how we have fished out the seas...

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