Thank you @GeorgeMonbiot for #regenesis. One of those rare books I could subscribe to every word! Very deep and differentiated and systems thinking: the ingredients needed to get our #FoodSystems transformed. Some favorite quotes in this thread 1/8 
"Q: 'What do you grow?' A: 'Biodiversity' The vegetables are a by-product". Tolly talks about vegetables. That concept should be default for all livestock systems. And #EcosystemServices be the reason for farming. 2/8
"Reducing food waste, while essential, is one of the many solutions [...] whose potential has been greatly exaggerated." No food should go wasted! But reducing #FoodWaste alone doesn't solve the systemic and distributional failures of our food systems. 3/8
"A [...] rewilding project [...] found that it employs six time as many workers as the dairy farms it replaced." Jobs are no reason to stick to livestock systems. There are more and better jobs in the #bioeconomy. 4/8
"We need to help livestock farmers leave the industry through a just transition". The current food and energy crises would have been a good opportunity to start this process - don't wait for the next! 5/8
"We need to compare yields, compare land uses, compare the diversity and abundance of wildlife, compare emissions, [...], nutrition across every aspect of food production." YES! But also across #FoodProcessing, #FoodDistribution and #FoodConsumption! 6/8
"We are likely to witness a techno-ethical shift, similar to that of the contraceptive pill. [...] Why should we eat the products of this cruel, dangerous, ecocidal system when we no longer need to." 7/8
"Minimizing our impact means minimizing our use of land. I have come to see land use as the most important of all environmental questions." 8/8.
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