Professor Sir Ian Boyd, who oversaw the UK’s post Brexit food and farming policies, claimed people must eat food from factories to help combat climate change.
By 2050 the world population is expected to reach 11 billion including a UK population of 75 million. Boyd will deliver a lecture at the Royal Society on 12 December 2019 discussing methods of securing food of the future.
Boyd said to the Sunday Times: “If there is going to be a solution to any of the environmental impacts of livestock production, it has to focus on price. Taxing meat directly is one way to do it.
“It’s not just the climate impacts, it’s other welfare and food issues such as avian influenza and bovine tuberculosis. You realise the system does not make much sense, you have to change. I also avoid flying.
“We have to find new ways of manufacturing food in a systemic way, meaning we know where the materials and nutrients come from, where the energy comes from and where the markets are, so we build food factories nearby.”