What you eat affects the world. There was a time when most food was produced (and consumed) locally. Less resources were needed to raise and transport it; from farm to fork. Raw food stock didn’t undergo the kind of energy-, water- and chemical-intensive processing the modern food industry employs today, either. But there’s no way we can turn the clock back and return to those simpler times. The urgent need to feed growing populations means that factory farming and mass production techniques can never be wholly abandoned. However, there are ways to mitigate the burden on our health and the planet’s. Eating more healthily could: ● prevent 5.1 million deaths per year. This is because this would reduce the prevalence of chronic, non-communicable diseases associated with high body weight and unhealthy diets. ● help mitigate an expected growth in food-related greenhouse gas emissions. ● enable ...