Curious Cook: Food and greenhouse gas emissions


If those with carnivorous inclinations around the world reduced their beef consumption by 50% and ate chicken instead, this would save 1.635 billion tonnes of food system emissions entering the atmosphere. — KAROLINA GRABOWSKA/Pexels

The news of the month must be the COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland. COP means “Conference of the Parties” and this is its 26th party. And in my opinion, it has not gone as well as fervently hoped by many.

For a start, the omens did not bode well when the host, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, started with a lecture about the clock being at one minute to midnight for humanity and then proceeded to be 30 minutes late for subsequent meetings himself.

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