Can meat be part of sustainable food production?
Meat production is a big problem. As soon as society becomes more prosperous, it eats more meat. First it diversifies the vegetable consumption and thenpeople starteatingmore meat. The problem is that the environmental cost of meat production is much higher. Here it comes to the land use competition where the problem is not biofuels but meat production. If you produce only one head of cattle per hectare just imagine how many hectares of pasture we need. That will be the key problem. The problem is the surface yield productivity of animal production. But in parallel, we need animal production. What should bethe shortand long term priorities for EU in agricultural research? First is to have better knowledge of the natural potential already in existence. We have a lot of species and varieties in nature and we must explore them much more. For that, we don’t need any complicated research, but just exploration of natural potential. Secondly, we need to create innovation that end-users can ad
