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Nutrition has to be the centre of sustainable #FoodSystems

If we're not feeding people, we're not being sustainable!

—Nick Smith of Massey University at Int. Meat Summit in Dublin today

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Can we fill nutrient gaps with supplements & fortification?

We do not know how this could be scaled in poor countries or how bioavailable these foods would be

—Nick Smith of Massey University at Int. Meat Summit in Dublin today

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Meat Matters in the Human Diet

In circular food systems, animals are fed on crop wastes and grasslands

—Nick Smith of Massey University speaking at the Int. Meat Summit in Dublin today

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Meat Matters in the Human Diet

Answer to the question below:

It's not that simple

What we would gain does not make up for what we would lose

—Nick Smith of Massey University speaking at the Int. Meat Summit in Dublin today

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Meat Matters in the Human Diet

There are higher levels of malnutrition in societies with lower meat consumption

—Nick Smith of Massey University speaking at the Int. Meat Summit in Dublin today

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Huge differences in the amounts of unprocessed red meat that are eaten around the world

And there are big gaps in nutrient requirements

—Nick Smith of Massey University speaking at the Int. Meat Summit in Dublin today

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The nutritional goodness of foods depends largely on their 'bioavailability' or digestibility

Animal protein is more 'bioavailable' than plant protein

—Nick Smith of Massey University at the Int. Meat Summit in Dublin today

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Meat Matters in the Human Diet

Animal-source foods improve brain function

—Neil Mann of University of Melbourne speaking at the International Meat Summit happening in Dublin today

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Meat Matters in the Human Diet

Eating lean meat can lower, not increase, human cholesterol

—Neil Mann of University of Melbourne speaking at the International Meat Summit happening in Dublin today

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Meat Matters in the Human Diet

Importance of iron in the human diet

—Neil Mann of University of Melbourne speaking at the International Meat Summit happening in Dublin today

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Meat Matters in the Human Diet

Meat is important in the human diet.

—Neil Mann of University of Melbourne speaking at the International Meat Summit happening in Dublin today

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Meat Matters in the Human Diet

Most hunter-gatherer societies depended on meat for their energy supplies (no vegetarian societies)

—Neil Mann of University of Melbourne speaking at the International Meat Summit happening in Dublin today

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Meat Matters in the Human Diet

When on walkabout & eating mostly meat, the health of Australian aborigines improved significantly

—Neil Mann of University of Melbourne speaking at the International Meat Summit happening in Dublin today

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Meat Matters in the Human Diet
—Neil Mann of University of Melbourne speaking at the International Meat Summit happening in Dublin today

#MeatInSociety #WhyLivestockMatter
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