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To reach our climate goals, we need more sustainable protein sources. What if we replaced meat with insects?

(This is the third instalment in a series on alternative proteins. Read the introductory article here.)

The COP26 conference marks a breakthrough in the discourse on climate change by addressing fossil fuel subsidies for the first time. Yet, environmental justice continues to be in the forefront of the climate debate.   

With increasingly more people living and growing up in urban environments, their connection to land, farming and rural food production risks becoming weaker and more fragmented. I am one of those people who grew up knowing very little of where my food came from and who produced it. This summer, spurred by the idea of sustainability in the local, I decided to find out: What does life look like for small-scale farmers where I am from?

Increasingly meat-like substitute products blur the lines between animals and plants in consumers' diets. Will meat be made of plants in the future?

(This is the second installment in a series on alternative proteins. Read the introductory article here.)

In all the talk of decarbonizing society and meeting climate goals, we cannot forget to include our food. Despite Vandana Shiva shedding light on this issue in 2008 with her book Soil not Oil, our food system remains drenched in fossil fuels.