Rebalancing Global Meat The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization will present a plan at next week’s COP28 meeting in Dubai that calls for rich countries to eat less meat, while instructing developing countries to boost their livestock production to improve animal protein in their diets. The organization complains that agriculture contributes a third of global emissions, and livestock production composes a third of the emissions by agriculture. It also says livestock production leads to deforestation and other externalities. Based on that, the solution is not to slow livestock production where it already exists and is efficient. The solution is to trade meat from current production areas to places with diets deficient in prote...

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