WWF: Changing food culture can help sustainability

The change on our plate – WWF’s report on sustainable nutrition in Central Europe study draws attention to the most important data, which shows that by changing the eating culture, serious steps could be taken not only for the protection of the planet, but also for the individual physical and mental health of people. to do – was said at the press conference in Budapest on Tuesday presenting the study.

Biologist Katalin Sipos, director of WWF Hungary, explained in her presentation that agriculture is currently nature’s biggest competitor due to its enormous territorial demand, as every hectare of arable land was created on the site of some former habitat, forest, ancient grassland or swamp. Half of the world’s habitable land is under agricultural cultivation. About twenty percent of them produce plant materials intended for direct human consumption, and the rest, almost eighty percent, produce feed for farm animals.