The global, industrialized food system faces increasing scrutiny for its
environmental impact, given its voracious appetite for land is linked to
mass deforestation, water pollution and asizable chunk
<https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-021-00225-9>of the world’s
greenhouse gas emissions.
The implied trade-off has been that advances in agriculture have greatly
reduced hunger and driven societies out of poverty due to improved
productivity and efficiencies. But Mark Bittman, the American food
author and journalist, argues in his new bookAnimal, Vegetable, Junk
<https://www.hmhbooks.com/shop/books/Animal-Vegetable-Junk/9781328971623>that
these supposed benefits are largely illusionary.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/25/our-unequal-earth-mark-bittman-cheap-food-american-diet
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