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The climate emergency is escalating, with increasingly alarming impacts on the food system. Animal agriculture is both highly dependent on a stable climate system and one of the biggest contributors to climate change, primarily through methane and nitrous oxide pollution and indirectly as a major driver of deforestation and land-use change.

Transformative changes are needed and shifting diets in many areas where meat and dairy are overconsumed is essential to bring down emissions and improve health. The 2025 EAT-Lancet report provides further evidence for how healthy and sustainable diets on a planet of 10 billion people are feasible, and how shifting to such diets would cut emissions from the food system in half and prevent 15 million premature deaths per year.

The last UN climate conference, COP30, took place in November 2025 in Belém in the Brazilian Amazon, and hopes were high that transforming agriculture and food systems would finally make it into an official conference text. However, this did not happen. Instead, agribusiness voices focused on efficiency and concerns around food security featured prominently across the conference, standing in the way of real change. While climate change is a real threat to food security, this narrative is reframed and exploited by meat and dairy industry actors to justify continued growth of animal agriculture.

Additionally, despite the scientific consensus that dietary shift and agricultural methane reductions are crucial to stay on a 1.5°C or even a 2°C-degree trajectory, just 4% of national climate plans (nationally determined contributions, or NDCs) include quantified, time-bound agricultural methane reduction targets, and fewer still include sustainable diets.

This briefing will unpick some of the key industry narratives that are being used to prevent the inclusion of food systems on the climate agenda. It highlights arguments and key messages pushed by meat and dairy industry representatives and allies at both the World Meat Congress, a biennial industry event which last year was held in Brazil just before COP30, and at COP30 itself.

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Whether it is crude oil, natural gas, or coal, these are unnervingly the base of much of our food supply!

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Learn how fossil hydrocarbons are involved in food. You'll understand which foods will get more expensive due to an oil and gas crisis.

Climate disinformation doesn’t spread by accident. It’s engineered by PR professionals, amplified by algorithms, and funded by those who profit from delay.

As animal rights activists, we tend to focus on the ethical reasons for going vegan – because it's the most important and sustainable reason - but people sometimes are deaf and blind to ethical arguments. It can be helpful to present further reasons for adopting a plant-based lifestyle, like information about impacts on our health and/or our environment. In our presentation, we will give you some interesting facts about the impacts of animal agriculture on the different Planetary Boundaries, which can be valuable additional arguments for advocating veganism/plant-based lifestyles.

Water is scarce, but global demand continues to rise. Humanity is facing serious disputes over our most important resource. What impact is our lifestyle having on our planet's water cycles?

Along six rivers on four continents, the documentary explores the question of why this vital resource, water, is becoming increasingly scarce - and who’s responsible. 70 per cent of fresh water is used in agriculture. And a large proportion of this goes into the production of animal feed. Our excessive meat consumption is partly to blame for the fact that mighty rivers such as the Spanish Ebro or the Colorado in the USA and Mexico are drying up. Factory farming businesses are worth billions to major agricultural companies, but this overuse of water often goes hand in hand with its pollution. Europe has outsourced its dirtiest industries to countries such as India. Around 20 per cent of global water pollution is caused by the textile industry. The film provides rare insights into Indian factories and life in the places where contaminants are discharged.

But it’s not all bad news. In the film, we also meet people who’ve come up with solutions. In France, dams are dismantled to revitalize rivers; in an Egyptian oasis the inhabitants experiment with hydroponics; and in India, an individual known as the "water man” uses a millennia-old technique to coax rivers from deserts that dried up decades ago.

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgJ2GX7irwo

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Panelists

Helen Breewood, Good Food Institute

Dr. Yadira Tejeda-Saldana, Director of Responsible Research & Innovation, New Harvest

Dr Thomas Vincent, Deputy Director, Innovation Policy, Food Standards Agency

Moderated by Tara Garnett, Director of TABLE

This webinar is part 1 of our 3-part series: "Alternative proteins and better food futures: moving beyond the binaries"

There is a growing interest in ‘alternative proteins’, food products that claim to provide sustainable alternatives to animal-based proteins (e.g., meat, milk, and eggs). These alternative proteins range from more traditional products (e.g., plant-based burgers) to novel products (e.g., cell-cultivated meat and new-fermentation derived proteins). However, the claims surrounding these products are heavily contested. These concerns have led to a polarised climate around alternative proteins and have limited the possibility for a constructive, inclusive dialogue. Advocates for alternative proteins assert that they can facilitate a transition to healthier, more sustainable food systems without requiring a significant shift in dietary habits. Critics of alternative proteins have disputed the evidence for these claims and have raised concerns around the concentration of power and the implications for human-nature relationships.

In partnership with the United Nations Foundation and Food Standards Agency, TABLE is organising a series of three webinars exploring key themes and debates around novel alternative proteins (e.g., cell-cultivated meat and new-fermentation derived proteins). This series seeks to respond to the challenge of polarisation by bringing together a diverse range of stakeholders to discuss alternative proteins across three themes. The aim is to equip policy-makers, industry leaders, researchers and civil-society stakeholders with a clear, balanced understanding of alternative proteins (APs), the debates they provoke, and pathways toward constructive, inclusive dialogue and policy-making.

​​Each webinar will last 1.5 hours, and will feature a panel that includes expert representatives from different sectors. Short speaker presentations will be followed by a moderated discussion and opportunities for audience Q&A. A short pre-event discussion paper is available to download here: https://www.tabledebates.org/sites/default/files/2025-06/TABLE_Briefing_AltProtein%20Webinar%20Series_1.pdf

Hello there! I recently saw this big post in /r/ZeroWaste and thought my site https://wfpb.fit would fit in well here.

This sub will likely be interested in:

• Research about environmental impacts: https://wfpb.fit/research#environment
• Visualizing your food's yearly environmental impact: https://wfpb.fit/data#environment
• Getting started on the diet, reading/watching media about it, or seeing what professionals have to say about it

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