More dairy needed to achieve sustainable global diet - Fonterra

More dairy needed to achieve sustainable global diet - Fonterra
Gavin Evans
Global dairy output will have to increase – not fall – if the dietary targets of an international study on sustainable food production are to be achieved, Fonterra says. While dairy consumption in Europe and North America exceeds the levels proposed in a sustainable reference diet modelled in an EAT-Lancet study earlier this year, the global average is still only about half that targeted, Jeremy Hill told delegates at the Climate Change and Business Conference in Auckland this week. The diet proposed by EAT, an Oslo-based think tank dedic...

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