根据来自oxfam.根据牛津饥荒救济委员会(Oxford Committee for Famine Relief)的报告，食品和饮料行业十大巨头跨国公司的生态足迹，按二氧化碳当量排放CO2-eq计算，超过了整个斯堪的纳维亚半岛的生态足迹。不仅如此，如果这些公司加在一起成为一个国家，它们将成为全球第25大二氧化碳排放国。考虑到食品行业占超过25%的全球二氧化碳当量排放,很明显,相同的部门也对全球变暖有重要影响,因此,没有一个有效的贡献Big10,《京都议定书》的目标远未实现。众所周知，在食品中，牛肉制品具有最高的环境足迹，特别是由于动物本身的所谓生物源排放的高影响。每公斤牛肉的二氧化碳当量排放量超过18公斤。以猪肉为例，每头动物每千克二氧化碳当量的具体排放量降至4以下。因此，无论正确与否，这些食品经常被指定为整个食品部门“碳足迹”的责任人。这就是为什么许多消费者，尤其是那些接近激进环保思想的人，呼吁抵制他们的消费，支持纯素或素食饮食，这可能更多是受当今时尚的推动，而不是真正的信念，如果有有价值的科学知识支持就更好了。在所有这一切之外，还必须加上金融和经济危机。在过去几年里，金融和经济危机对所有国家都造成了冲击，尽管冲击程度不一。食品部门的消费出现下降，转向低价产品。 And as is easily understood, meat is certainly not the lowest-cost food. The result of this environmental-economical relationship in the last 6 years has resulted in a considerable decrease in the number of animals, which only in Italy is estimated around 2 million livestock, of which 250 thousand cattle, 800 thousand pork and approx. 1 million sheep. Therefore, special attention must be paid to the protection of national excellence in sectors already affected by unfair competition in the past, with imports of low-cost low-quality raw materials. Thankfully, the new Regulation for meat will protect the “Made in Italy”. However, a strict application of this regulation is necessary, which will be only possible if, next to the controls performed by the responsible authorities, trade associations will be able to control and, if necessary, report violations committed by their members. In the year of Expo, a compact Italian team can reasonably be expected, formed by all operators of the food sector, ready to turn the Universal Exposition into an event that will launch a major long-lasting change of the Country.
