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The Dublin Declaration fails to recognize the need to reduce industrial animal agriculture

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The framework presented in the Dublin Declaration has generated controversy by advocating for maintaining or increasing livestock numbers. The serious and acute harms associated with global livestock production today bring the goals of the declaration into dispute.

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Fig. 1: The percentage of total meat consumption in countries of different income levels.
Fig. 2: The percentage of total meat production in countries of different income levels.

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  1. University of Bath, Bath, UK

    Chris Bryant

  2. Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    Harry Aiking

  3. Queen Mary University of London, Centre for Public Health and Policy, London, UK

    Roberta Alessandrini

  4. Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands

    Paul Behrens

  5. Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Paul Behrens

  6. Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, EUREF Campus 19, Berlin, Germany

    Felix Creutzig

  7. Bard College, Campus Center, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, USA

    Gidon Eshel

  8. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK

    Rosemary Green

  9. Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Nicholas Hutchings

  10. European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

    Adrian Leip

  11. Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

    Ron Milo

  12. University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

    Pete Smith

  13. Farming Systems Ecology group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands

    Hannah van Zanten

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Bryant, C., Aiking, H., Alessandrini, R. et al. The Dublin Declaration fails to recognize the need to reduce industrial animal agriculture. Nat Food 5, 799–801 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-01054-2

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