{"id":364,"date":"2013-06-05T16:33:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T15:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reading.ac.uk\/the-forum\/?p=364"},"modified":"2021-11-03T14:41:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T14:41:18","slug":"food-security-reports-meat-recommendations-oversimplify-the-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2013\/06\/05\/food-security-reports-meat-recommendations-oversimplify-the-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Food security report\u2019s meat recommendations \u2018oversimplify the issue\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Professor Richard Tiffin, Director of the <a title=\"Centre for Food Security\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/food-security\/fs-home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centre for Food Security<\/a> at the University of Reading discusses the <a title=\"House of Commons International Development Committee report on Food Security\" href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/indcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House of Commons International Development Committee report on Food Security<\/a>, published this week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The House of Commons International Development Committee report on Food Security is a comprehensive and challenging attempt to highlight some of the issues which confront us with this complex problem.<\/p>\n<p>The report highlights: the potential of GM to contribute to food security but recognises that care must be excercised in promoting this as a solution; the importance of agricultural research; the importance of open international markets in protecting against shocks; and that a focus on malnutrition may be as, if not more, important than that of hunger.<\/p>\n<p>However, while the aim of the report is to take a global focus, it is perhaps guilty of oversimplifying the issue of meat production and coming to locally-centred, rather than global, conclusions. It notes that the rate of increase in meat consumption is unsustainable and recommends that meat should be promoted as an occasional product. By highlighting the place of animals in ensuring global food security the report is to be applauded but the reality is that this area is complex and not well understood at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>It is irrefutable that demand for meat globally will grow as populations become richer.\u00a0 At a local level, it might be sensible for us to reduce meat consumption and the reality is that price increases will probably lead us to do this voluntarily.\u00a0 At a global level, however, it is much more important to consider how the inevitable increase in demand can be met and what its implications are for human health. We should not solely focus our attention on repelling the tide.<\/p>\n<p>The report correctly states that we need to identify sustainable livestock systems, but it is not necessarily true that extensive pasture-based systems are more sustainable. For example there is evidence to suggest that more intensive feeding reduces the emission of greenhouse gases caused by livestock.\u00a0 The role played by livestock in providing a route out of poverty for some of the poorest farmers should also not be overlooked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Richard Tiffin, Director of the Centre for Food Security at the University of Reading discusses the House of Commons International Development Committee report on Food Security, published this week&#8230;.<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"&#104;&#116;&#116;&#112;&#115;&#58;&#47;&#47;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#101;&#97;&#114;&#99;&#104;&#46;&#114;&#101;&#97;&#100;&#105;&#110;&#103;&#46;&#97;&#99;&#46;&#117;&#107;&#47;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#101;&#97;&#114;&#99;&#104;&#45;&#98;&#108;&#111;&#103;&#47;&#50;&#48;&#49;&#51;&#47;&#48;&#54;&#47;&#48;&#53;&#47;&#102;&#111;&#111;&#100;&#45;&#115;&#101;&#99;&#117;&#114;&#105;&#116;&#121;&#45;&#114;&#101;&#112;&#111;&#114;&#116;&#115;&#45;&#109;&#101;&#97;&#116;&#45;&#114;&#101;&#99;&#111;&#109;&#109;&#101;&#110;&#100;&#97;&#116;&#105;&#111;&#110;&#115;&#45;&#111;&#118;&#101;&#114;&#115;&#105;&#109;&#112;&#108;&#105;&#102;&#121;&#45;&#116;&#104;&#101;&#45;&#105;&#115;&#115;&#117;&#101;&#47;\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1785],"tags":[163,408,755,859,910],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture-food-and-health","tag-centre-for-food-security","tag-government","tag-research","tag-sustainability","tag-university-of-reading"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - 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