Part 1 - Why a plant-based future     (13 minutes)

Jan Dutkiewicz, policy fellow at Harvard Law, makes the environmental and ethical case for a plant-based future, covering land use, protein and calorie conversion inefficiencies, methane emissions, social justice arguments, and the implications of putting forward a strong animal rights position.

Speaker

Jan Dutkiewicz is a political economist with a particular focus on meat and other food products and a geographical focus on the United States. His two current primary projects are a monograph about the politics of American corporate meat production and a co-authored trade book envisioning a more just and sustainable food system.

Section resources

Article: Meatification and accumulation (Tony Weis, 2017)

Book: Animal Liberation (Peter Singer, 1975)

Article: The case for animal rights (Tom Regan, 1986)

Article: Existing cropland could feed four billion more by dropping biofuels and animal feed (Emily Cassidy et al., 2013)