From the creators of the Meat the Truth documentary, Meat the Truth: Essays on Livestock Production, Sustainability and Climate Change discusses the global livestock industry’s impact on climate change, human health, global hunger, and poverty.
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The food we eat can be a part of the problem, but it can also be the solution. (Photo credit: Bernard Pollack)
In her contributing essay, “Impact of Growth in Factory Farming in Developing World,” Nourishing the Planet project co-director, Danielle Nierenberg, explains that the negative impacts of factory farming extend beyond harming animals to include increasing greenhouse gas emissions and the spread of disease. But, sustainable livestock production, including grass-fed livestock production and rotational grazing systems, can help mitigate climate change, increase small-scale farmer incomes, and help improve livelihoods and diets around the world. The food we eat can be a part of the problem, but it can also be the solution.
To learn more about Meat the Truth and the accompanying documentary, see The Nicolaas G. Pierson Foundation.
Danielle Nierenberg, an expert on livestock and sustainability, currently serves as Project Director of State of World 2011 for the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington, DC-based environmental think tank. Her knowledge of factory farming and its global spread and sustainable agriculture has been cited widely in the New York Times Magazine, the International Herald Tribune, the Washington Post, and
other publications.
Danielle worked for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic. She is currently traveling across Africa looking at innovations that are working to alleviate hunger and poverty and blogging everyday at Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. She has a regular column with the Mail & Guardian, the Kansas City Star, and the Huffington Post and her writing was been featured in newspapers across Africa including the Cape Town Argus, the Zambia Daily Mail, Coast Week (Kenya), and other African publications. She holds an M.S. in agriculture, food, and environment from Tufts University and a B.A. in environmental policy from Monmouth College.
