15 May 2024 The role of animal foods in healthy, sustainable, ethical diets

Physicians and Scientists for Global Responsibility (PSGR) ask Lincoln University's Professor Gregorini “What happens when we give livestock more choice in a grazing system?”

A two-part interview between PSGRNZ and Professor Pablo Gregorini is available as two YouTube videos (part 1, part 2), or as a single podcast (available on Substack or Spotify - search for @PSGRNZ).

An increasing proportion of people - particularly younger generations - are electing to be vegetarian. When asked, they reason that animal agriculture is bad for the planet, driving climate change and pollution, and that eating animals is unethical.

At the same time a global cohort of researchers, past and present, are shedding light on how livestock (domestic herbivores such as goats, sheep, cattle and deer), learn, evolve and co-evolve, in not just paddocks or fields or landscapes – but in foodscapes.

The incessant curiosity and a willingness to look across disciplines and pay respect to complexity, is deepening global knowledge on the intelligence of animals – including the animals we farm for meat, around their eating (grazing) choices, and how we can improve our paddocks and fields – our foodscapes, to co-evolve with animals in a mutually beneficial way.

Part 1: Is eating meat - is farming- ethical?

Part 2: Animal plant choice influences human cellular health - Metabolomic profiling and phytonutrients

Read the story on the PSGR website here >>>

Professor Pablo Gregorini