From Andrew Benton, Flourtown, Pennsylvania, US
“Recipe for disaster” certainly got my attention. It made it clear just how serious a matter climate change is likely to be for farming and food production. It then talks about solutions, stating: one big answer is eating less meat (16 November, p 44).
The article later advised against buying organic food because it isn’t as efficient per hectare of land. Well, if the world took the big solution seriously and reduced meat and dairy consumption, we would need only a fraction of the land to grow enough food, and we could rewild the rest of it.
Organic farming is about sustainability, creating healthy soils and treating animals well. What is the point of efficiency if we continue to lose topsoil? On top of that, agrochemicals are energy intensive, thus adding to carbon emissions.
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