The detrimental link between animal agriculture and public health is indisputable.
The global food system is broken. The Industrial agricultural model is not only the leading cause of biodiversity loss, but it’s rapidly becoming our biggest health threat as well. With chronic diseases on the rise and a clear link between global pandemics and the industrial meat industry, it is now critical that health professionals come together to highlight our increasingly unhealthy food system. We simply can’t sit by and wait for the burden of disease to rise any longer.
As health professionals, we need to work together with food advocates, influencers and change agents to develop collaborative solutions that align with the best available dietary recommendations.
This is why we formed the 50by40 Health Working Group.
We know that people care deeply about their health, and we want to collaborate to improve both public and professional awareness of the co-benefits of transforming what we farm, cook, and what we all eat.
Below are a range of initial health rationales we believe represent the starting points for a broader conversation around our food and our health. There is still much to discover in the field of nutrition, but we believe there is sufficient evidence to encourage not only healthier eating, but improved food policy.
As our Working Group continues, we hope that other 50by40 partners and allies will use this research to back up their work with scientifically sound evidence.
We also want to invite other health professionals and advocates to join our work.
All the rationales used in the document below are not comprehensive, but rather represent the most compelling health rationale statement backed by scientific evidence under that category. For a more detailed view of different health rationales and priority statements, please click here.
The rising chronic disease burden around the world impels health professionals and advocates to ask what we can do collaboratively to support healthier lifestyles around the world. Through this list of rationales, we hope to further the global discussion around making healthy food and lifestyle choices.
In order to achieve systemic change, we must learn from one another, and develop new ways of promoting healthier, plant-based food systems. If you’d like to join in the work of the Health Working Group, or think you’d benefit from their work, please reach out.
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