The brutal trade-off that will decide the future of food

The brutal trade-off that will decide the future of food

A review of new books like Michael Grunwald’s We Are Eating the Earth and Richard Sexton’s Food Fight reveals a painful choice between saving land and animal welfare.

The brutal trade-off that will decide the future of food - Dining and Cooking

Perhaps the most crucial idea for understanding our species’ future on this planet boils down to two boring words: land use. To mitigate climate change, humans will need to extract critical minerals to build vast numbers of photovoltaic cells and wind turbines. We’ll need millions of tons of copper to wire continent-spanning power grids. But [...]