A study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future at the Bloomberg School of Public Health finds that the US's top newspapers have largely overlooked the food system as one of the more important contributors to global climate change.
The two-year study analysed coverage by 16 of the nation's largest circulation newspapers. According to the study, the contribution to greenhouse gas emissions from food production and agriculture was mentioned in only 2.4 percent of climate change articles.
The study also found that 0.5 percent of climate change articles made any mention of the greenhouse gas emissions from livestock and meat production. The paper, entitled Yesterday's dinner, tomorrow's weather, today's news? US newspaper coverage of food system contributions to climate change is published in Public Health Nutrition.
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