Livestock: On our plates or eating at our table? A new analysis of the feed/food debate

By Anne Motteta, Cees de Haanb, Alessandra Falcuccia, Giuseppe Tempioa, Carolyn Opioa, Pierre Gerbera. 2017

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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The role of trade in the greenhouse gas footprints of EU diets (2018, background): “Currently, animal products are an important source of protein (58% of protein supply in the EU countries in 2010 (Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations FAO, 2017)) and micronutrients (Mottet et al., 2017) and these aspects should be carefully assessed when preparing policy guidance”
Country-specific dietary shifts to mitigate climate and water crises (2019, background): “lizing the share of grassland unsuitable for crop production (Mottet et al., 2017).”
Trade-offs between environment and livelihoods: Bridging the global land use and food security discussions (2017, neutral): “…kg of protein from human edible feed was required per kg of meat protein produced, although with large diversity ranging from 0.1-0.5 kg edible protein / kg meat protein produced in extensive grazing and backyard monogastric production systems to 4.1-5.2 in industrial systems (Mottet et al. 2017).”
The environmental sustainability of insects as food and feed. A review (2017, background): “About a third of the world’s cereal production is fed to animals (Mottet et al. 2017).”
Strategies to improve the efficiency of beef cattle production (2020, background): “Although FCR is a superior measurement over average daily gain, FCR metrics do not account for the nutritional value of feed consumed or the human nutritional value placed on the output gain (Mottet et al. 2017).”
We Can’t Keep Meating Like This: Attitudes towards Vegetarian and Vegan Diets in the United Kingdom (2019, background): “The inefficiency of converting plant calories to animal calories means that animal rearing is resource-intensive, and this contributes to global food insecurity [5,6].”
Less meat, more legumes: prospects and challenges in the transition toward sustainable diets in Sweden (2018, neutral): “There were four reasons for this level of reduction.”
Considering Plant-Based Meat Substitutes and Cell-Based Meats: A Public Health and Food Systems Perspective (2020, background): “, 2011)—roughly half to three-quarters of global agricultural land—while animal foods account for only 18% of calories and 25% of protein in the global food supply (Mottet et al., 2017).”
Global poultry production: current state and future outlook and challenges (2017, background): “Mottet et al. (2017) estimate that efficiency in poultry production systems is generally higher than in ruminant production.”