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Farming, Food and Nature Livestock production and its use of finite resources is devastating biodiver- sity and pushing wildlife to the brink of extinction. This powerful book examines the massive global impact caused by intensive livestock production and then explores solutions, ranging from moving to agroecological farm- ing to reducing consumption of animal products, including examples of best practice and innovation, both on land and within the investment and food industries. Leading international contributors spell out the problems in terms of plan- etary limits, climate change, resources, the massive use of cereals and soy for animal feed, and the direct impact of industrial farming on the welfare of farmed animals. They call for an urgent move to a flourishing food system for the sake of animals, the planet and us. Some offer examples of global good practice in farming or the power of the investment community to drive change, and others highlight food business innovation and exciting develop- ments in protein diversification. Providing a highly accessible overview of key issues, this book creates a timely resource for all concerned about the en- vironmental, social and ethical issues facing food, farming and nature. It will be an invaluable resource and provide inspiration for students, professionals, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the general reader. Joyce D’Silva is Ambassador Emeritus for Compassion in World Farming, the leading charity advancing the welfare of farm animals worldwide. She is co-editor of The Meat Crisis (second edition 2017). Carol McKenna is Special Advisor to the Chief Executive of Compassion in World Farming and organised the Extinction and Livestock Conference on which this book is based. Other books in the Earthscan Food and Agriculture Series Farmers’ Cooperatives and Sustainable Food Systems in Europe Raquel Ajates Gonzalez The New Peasantries Rural Development in Times of Globalization (Second Edition) Jan Douwe van der Ploeg Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture Greening the World’s Food Economy Jules N. Pretty and Zareen Pervez Bharucha Contested Sustainability Discourses in the Agrifood System Edited by Douglas H. Constance, Jason Konefal and Maki Hatanaka The Financialization of Agri-Food Systems Contested Transformations Edited by Hilde Bjørkhaug, André Magnan and Geoffrey Lawrence Redesigning the Global Seed Commons Law and Policy for Agrobiodiversity and Food Security Christine Frison Organic Food and Farming in China Top-down and Bottom-up Ecological Initiatives Steffanie Scott, Zhenzhong Si, Theresa Schumilas and Aijuan Chen Farming, Food and Nature Respecting Animals, People and the Environment Edited by Joyce D’Silva and Carol McKenna For further details please visit the series page on the Routledge website: http://www.routledge.com/books/series/ECEFA/ Farming, Food and Nature Respecting Animals, People and the Environment Edited by Joyce D’Silva and Carol McKenna First published 2018 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2018 selection and editorial matter, Joyce D’Silva and Carol McKenna; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Joyce D’Silva and Carol McKenna to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: D’Silva, Joyce, editor. | McKenna, Carol, editor. Title: Farming, food and nature: respecting animals, people and the environment / edited by Joyce D’Silva and Carol McKenna. Description: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2018. | Series: Earthscan food and agriculture | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018028203 | ISBN 9781138541412 (hbk) | ISBN 9781138541443 (pbk) | ISBN 9781351011013 (ebk) Subjects: LCSH: Livestock—Social aspects. | Livestock—Climatic factor. | Livestock—Moral and ethical aspects. Classification: LCC SF140.S62 F37 2018 | DDC 636—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018028203 ISBN: 978-1-138-54141-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-138-54144-3 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-351-01101-3 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by codeMantra Contents List of contributors ix Foreword xxi JANE GOODALL 1 Introduction 1 JOYCE D’SILvA AND CAROL McKENNA PART I Setting the planetary scene 5 2 Livestock and the boundaries of our planet 7 KATHERINE RICHARDSON PART II The impacts of livestock production on the natural world 11 3 The great disappearing act 13 PHILIP LYMBERY 4 Biodiversity, extinction and livestock production 30 TONY JuNIPER 5 Bees versus robots 38 DAvE GOuLSON 6 Conservation and the sacred cow 41 DOMINIC WORMELL 7 Protected Cerrado and sustainable diets: complementary pathways towards a more conscious appetite 46 JEAN FRANçOIS TIMMERS vi Contents 8 The growing demand for fish: impacts on the environment, animal welfare and food security 55 KRzYSzTOF WOTJAS AND NATASHA BOYLAND PART III The impact of livestock production on people 61 9 Livestock production and human rights or how the chicken came home to roost 63 RAJ PATEL 10 The role of livestock in developing countries 69 JIMMY SMITH PART IV The significance of sentience in wild and farmed animals 75 11 Beyond words: what animals think and feel 77 CARL SAFINA 12 Creatures of the factory farm 86 JOYCE D’SILvA 13 The scientific basis for action on animal welfare and other aspects of sustainability 93 DONALD M. BROOM 14 Green and pleasant farming: cattle, sheep and habitat 101 JOHN WEBSTER PART V Solutions for people, planet and animals 107 15 Agroecology working in Africa: the case of Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania (SAT) 109 JANET MARO 16 Balancing the needs of food production, farming and nature in the UK uplands 116 CHRIS CLARK AND PAT THOMPSON Contents vii 17 Chikolongo – a win for people and parks 123 JOSEPH OKORI AND PETER BORCHERT 18 Silvopastoral systems: a feasible step towards environmentally sustainable livestock systems in Mexico 131 KAREN F. MANCERA 19 Farming in harmony with nature 138 PATRICK HOLDEN PART VI Food policy for the future 141 20 Paying for the true costs of our meat, eggs and dairy 143 PETER STEvENSON 21 Changing the world, one meal at a time 164 MARTIN PALMER 22 The Sustainable Development Goals: challenge or opportunity? 171 HANS R. HERREN 23 Rethinking our global food systems 175 JONATHON PORRITT 24 Sustainability in the agro-food sector 178 KARL FALKENBERG 25 Farming insects for food or feed 181 PHIL BROOKE 26 Hopeful signposts to a plant-based future 198 CAROL McKENNA PART VII Healthy and sustainable diets 221 27 Healthy and sustainable dietary patterns for prevention of chronic diseases and premature death 223 ELENA HEMLER AND FRANK B. Hu viii Contents 28 The threat to public health from livestock production 230 AYSHA AKHTAR 29 Food, feed and sustainable diets 232 DuNCAN WILLIAMSON 30 Conserving biodiversity through sustainable diets 236 GLYN DAvIES 31 The case for veganism 238 ANDREW KNIGHT AND JASMIJN DE BOO PART VIII Investing in a flourishing food system 249 32 Corporate engagement strategies to improve farm animal welfare and why they work 251 LEAH GARCES 33 The power of investor influence 257 ROSIE WARDLE 34 The role of business in reducing meat and dairy consumption 262 MICHAEL PELLMAN ROWLAND 35 Plant-based and clean meat will save the world 265 BRuCE FRIEDRICH Conclusion 271 JOYCE D’SILvA AND CAROL McKENNA Index 273 Contributors Editors Joyce D’Silva has an MA from Dublin university, Trinity College, and has been awarded honorary doctorates from the universities of Winchester and Keele. She has taught in schools in India and the uK. She wrote the uK’s second vegan cookbook, Healthy Eating for the New Age Wildwood House, 1980), which ran to four editions. In 1985 Joyce began a long career at Compassion in World Farming (Compassion), becoming Chief Executive in 1991, a post she held for 14 years. Since April 2016 she has been working as Ambassador Emeritus for Compassion on a consultancy basis. She played a key role in achieving the uK ban on sow stalls in the 1990s and in getting recognition of an- imal sentience enshrined in the European union (Eu) Treaties. She has given evidence to the uK and New zealand governments, the European Commission and the uK Government’s Advisory Committee on Climate Change. Joyce addressed (and organised, with the Royal Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals, RSPCA) the first conference on pig welfare in Beijing in 2005; initiated Compassion’s 2005 Conference “From Darwin to Dawkins: the Science and Implications of Animal Sentience”; and, in 2017, helped organise the conference “Extinction and Livestock: mov- ing to a flourishing food system for wildlife, farm animals and us”. Joyce co-edited (with John Webster) The Meat Crisis: Developing more sustainable and ethical production and consumption, Earthscan, 2017. She has received sev- eral awards for her animal welfare work and was the joint recipient of the RSPCA Lord Erskine Award in recognition of a “very important contri- bution in the field of animal welfare” in 2004. Joyce is a Patron of the Animal Interfaith Alliance and a Trustee of the uK branch of Help in Suffering, a charity carrying out veterinary work in Jaipur, India. She is on the Advisory Council of CreatureKind. Joyce has authored chapters for several books and reports, including Wel- fare Challenges ed. Dr Andy Butterworth, CABI, publication pending 2018; The Impact of Meat Consumption on Health and Environmental Sustainability, eds

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Livestock production and its use of finite resources is devastating biodiversity and pushing wildlife to the brink of extinction. This powerful book examines the massive global impact caused by intensive livestock production and then explores solutions, ranging from moving to agroecological farming
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