Greta Thunberg: She intends to change the way food is produced

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg aims to change the way food is produced and consumed to address three threats: carbon emissions, disease outbreaks and animal pain.

In a video posted today on Twitter, Thunberg says the impact of agriculture on the environment and the outbreak of diseases such as COVID-19, which is said to have originated from animals, will be reduced by changing the way food is produced. .

“Our relationship with nature has been severed. “But relationships can change,” Tunberg said in a video on World Biodiversity Day.

A focus on agriculture and linking the climate crisis to health pandemics is a new perspective for Tunberg, which has focused its rage on policymakers and fossil fuel coal emissions.

“The climate crisis, the ecological crisis and the health crisis are linked,” he said.

Thunberg said the transmission of animal diseases to humans was caused by agricultural methods and that switching to a plant-based diet could reduce carbon dioxide emissions by as much as eight billion tonnes a year.

The World Health Organization has said that the coronavirus was probably transmitted from bats to humans through another animal, while scientists say that 60% of communicable diseases that occurred from 1990 to 2004 came from animals.

At the same time, the demand for meat alternatives is growing worldwide due to concerns about health, animal welfare and the environment.

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