01.01.2014 |
English, Landnahme, Landwirtschaft |
The illusory promise of the livestock revolution
Meatification of diets, industrial animal farms and global food security

The recent worsening of the global food crisis, which had been sparked by sharply rising and extremely volatile food prices in 2007-2008, triggered a heated debate about its potential drivers. Among the factors singled out commodity speculation and the growing diversion of crops to biofuels ranked high on the list of suspected culprits. Yet, the … weiterlesen