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With global warming on everyone’s agenda and livestock production responsible for 18 % of global greenhouse gas emissions, we are beginning to understand our symbiotic relationship with the environment. Conventional farming makes unsustainable demands on natural resources of land and water, is a pollutant, and a danger to human health in terms of antibiotic resistance and over-consumption. Better diet choices have to be made to positively affect an individual’s carbon footprint. This paper investigates why the City of Cape Town has endorsed Compassion in World Farming’s campaign for One-Meat-Free-Day-A-Week.
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Zokufa, T. (2013). Dietary Options for Climate Change Mitigation. In: Behnassi, M., Pollmann, O., Kissinger, G. (eds) Sustainable Food Security in the Era of Local and Global Environmental Change. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6719-5_3
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