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\nFor instance, on the claim that you can reduce your carbon footprint by buying locally produced food, he notes that “eating one less serving of red meat a week achieves the same reduction in emissions as switching to a 100% local diet”.
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\nHe is also unimpressed by the current fashion for organic farming in the developing world: apparently if Europe tried to feed itself organically it would need 28 million more hectares of cropland, equal to all the forests in France, Germany, Denmark and Britain.
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\nPaarlberg argues that with the world’s population set to rise to nine billion by 2050, we need an agriculture based on hard science. It’s difficult to disagree.
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\nFood Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know
\n<\/span><\/i><\/b>Robert Paarlberg
\nOxford University Press, 2010<\/p>\n

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— By PD Smith<\/p>\n

www.guardian.co.uk\/<\/p>\n

Copyright Guardian News & Media, 2010<\/p>\n

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