A new report says if the meat and dairy industries continue as they have, the Paris Climate Accord will be moot and a climate catastrophe inevitable.
The study is the first to quantify greenhouse gas emissions from the five biggest global meat and dairy companies. The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy is one of the groups behind the report.
IATP Climate Change Director Ben Lilliston said the problem is systemic, from how animals are raised, to how they are processed and distributed.
"We're not blaming farmers. Farmers and producers are caught in a much larger system,” Lilliston said. "It really is the companies' responsibility to shift the way that they raise animals and the way they work with farmers and raising animals."
The industry says production is designed to keep food affordable. But Lilliston said policymakers need to figure out how to reward food producers who keep climate change in mind.
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