A new article on the Dublin Scientists Statement has been published in the renowned science journal Nature Foods. The article explains the importance of livestock protection for its positive effects on health and nutrition, while calling on other scientists to sign the declaration. It is striking that 1,077 international scientists have adhered to the recently published Dublin Declaration.
The letter followed an international summit held in Dublin on October 19-20, 2022, during which scientists discussed the social role of meat. At this summit, a consortium of scientists concluded that our livestock systems are too valuable to lose to policymaking lacking a sound scientific basis.
The initiative was co-founded by Professor of Food Science and Biotechnology Frédéric Leroy, also co-author of the Nature Food article.
Today’s food systems face an unprecedented double challenge. Increased availability of livestock-derived foods (meat, dairy, eggs) is called for to help meet the unmet nutritional needs of some 3 billion people, for whom nutrient deficiencies contribute to stunting, wasting, anemia and other forms of malnutrition.
Animal husbandry is the proven, millennia-old method of creating sound nutrition and secure livelihoods
From the ONU
The last paragraph of the Dublin Declaration is taken from the text of the final documentation of the 2021 UN Food System Summit on Sustainable Livestock. It reads like this “Human civilization has been built on the basis of livestock, from the beginning of the Bronze Age, more than 5,000 years ago, until it became the basis of food security in modern modern societies. Livestock is the proven millennia-old method of creating sound nutrition and secure livelihoods, a wisdom deeply rooted in cultural values around the world.Sustainable farming will also provide solutions for today’s added challenge of staying within the safe operating zone of the limits of planet Earth, the only Earth we have”.
