215. Hungry For Alternatives
This week on O+O: UK Net Zero rollbacks, the rise of global populism and why we should all be hungry for (protein) alternatives. Pull up a chair to the table and tuck in to this week's episode.
With the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak\u2019s recent announcement that he plans to \u2018roll back\u2019 Net Zero commitments, coupled with the disturbing rise of global populist politicians choosing to hack the climate crisis conversation, our hosts Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac and Paul Dickinson, ask: why, and why now, are these leaders choosing to act against the scientific consensus and hit the brakes on progress? Tune in this week to hear the hosts\u2019 lively and insightful analysis on this worrying trend in global politics.
Alternative proteins is the topic of this week\u2019s guest interview.\xa0 Bruce Friedrich from the Good Food Institute is interviewed by the unflappable Andy Jarvis from theBezos Earth Fund, using his expertise in this area to dig into this incredibly important and hugely influential issue.
Bruce, Andy and the hosts unpacked the outsized positive impact that alternative proteins can have not only on tackling the climate crisis, but also our health, animal well-being and nature restoration.\xa0 He also issued a stark warning with regards to the huge quantities of antibiotics we feed our animals and the current and future on human health:
\u201cThe UK government said the threat to the human race from antimicrobial resistance is more certain than the threat from climate change. It's already killing 1.3 million people per year. It's predicted to be killing 10 million people per year by 2050, according to an article in The Lancet last year.\xa0 Seventy percent of medically relevant antibiotics are being fed to farm animals. Now, former head of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, has said\xa0 the end of working antibiotics is the end of modern medicine.\u201d * Yikes.
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Music this week comes from Colombian Psychedelic band \u2018BALTHVS\u2019 and their track \u2018Eclipse Solar\u2019.
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NOTES AND RESOURCES
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* Bruce quotes an article published in Jan 2022 by The Lancet: \xa0Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis. This article in turn quotes the UK\u2019s AMR review\u2019s final paper:Tackling Drug-Resistant Infections Globally: Final report and recommendations (2016) which is the original source of the figures Bruce uses in the quote above.\xa0
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Bruce Friedrich, President and Founder of The Good Food Institute
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