Professor Michael Lee, deputy vice-chancellor at Harper Adams University is backing the Dublin Declaration on the societal role of livestock.
According to the Good Food Institute, the sales of plant-based foods grew three times faster than overall food sales in the same year. "What it doesn’t do is say we have got everything right, and that we shouldn’t do things to amend those systems where needed – absolutely, we should!” However, the paper emphasises that while every effort is needed to reduce global methane by 30 per cent, to bring it back into natural production-removal cycles, emphasis also needs to be given to methane removal via atmospheric sinks.
“Other peer-reviewed papers in the issue look at things like health indices, ecosystem management and the ethics of meat consumption.