Sustainable Food Timothy Lang

To complicate the matter of meat consumption further, Professor Timothy Lang in a FAO article deduced that the challenge of defining sustainable diet is not just a matter of incorporating two scientific discourses i.e. public health and environment, due to the fact that food exhibits significant cultural and economic matter. Based on the article, Professor Lang asserted that, “part of the 20th century’s legacy is that it allowed us, in the name of progress, choice and individual rights, to develop an approach to food policy which saw no limits.” He claimed that long-established cultural orthodox, either religious or sometimes born from experience, have been imperceptibly overturned by consumerism coupled with substantially funded marketing. Therefore, the conflicts of human and environmental health is
Although this long-standing view has been constantly criticised hitherto, it does appear to have soothing effect on the conscience of many scientists who willingly torture in the name of advancement, in addition to the substantial number of entrepreneurs willing to mutilate and slaughter animals for purposes far beyond food for survival, but merely to acquire scent, to manufacture fur coat or to create an ornament by collecting ivory. Furthermore, animal rights is still considered by many as romantic rather than as a genuine progressive ethical issue with political appeal. Psychological research suggests that, even though animal rights are on the next enlightenment horizon, the movement will be challenged in the same manner as to how equality for same-sex marriage is still being opposed in the present circumstances, albeit the expansion of the moral spectrum to include homosexuals by the virtue of enlightenment ideals of equal rights and equal treatment under the