There are many reasons why we should not continue many of today’s food-producing practices. Agriculture’s major contribution to the generation of greenhouse gases is now the most-often cited justification for following a different path. But modern crop cultivation, animal husbandry, and aquaculture have many other undesirable environmental impacts, ranging from the loss of biodiversity to the creation of dead zones in coastal waters (for more on this see chapter 6)—and there are no good reasons for maintaining our excessive food production with its attendant food waste. So, many changes are
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