Read more: Kevin Bacon Wants You To Swap Meat For Beans One Day Per Week<\/a><\/p>\n The 10-year National Food Security Strategy<\/a> is the first of its kind, and aims to boost domestic food production, \u201ccut red tape,\u201d and spur grocery store competition.<\/p>\n While the food strategy aims to expand Canada\u2019s production of fruits and vegetables, it also plans for expanded animal farming and seafood production, two of the most unstable, inefficient, and high-impact forms of protein production in the world.<\/p>\n As noted<\/a> by World Animal Protection Canada, the country is \u201calready a global leader in producing plant-based proteins like lentils, beans and peas,\u201d but without a plant-based strategy, Canada is \u201cmissing the chance\u201d to achieve its full potential.\u00a0<\/p>\n The global food system is increasingly unstable<\/a>, and countless experts<\/a> have specifically endorsed plant-based and alternative proteins as an effective way of making the food system more equitable, ethical, sustainable, and profitable.<\/p>\n Last year, the updated EAT-Lancet report<\/a> found that its Planetary Health Diet could prevent more than 40,000 early deaths per day, and 15 million deaths per year.<\/p>\n The plant-forward diet could also save $5 trillion per year \u2013 more than 10 times the amount needed to drive widespread food system change \u2013 through improved climate resilience, environmental restoration, and improved human health.<\/p>\n Read more: The Legume Renaissance: One Bean Per Day Could Save Europeans \u20ac42 Million<\/a><\/p>\n Plant-based growth, Europe, and the food system<\/p>\n Europe is currently investing more than $2.5 million<\/a> to promote plant-based foods, while the Netherlands, which just reduced its national meat recommendations<\/a> by 40 percent, is about to get the \u2018world\u2019s first\u2019 cultivated meat farm<\/a>. Following its groundbreaking plant-based roadmap in 2023, Denmark announced a new initiative<\/a> last year that aims to replicate the same model EU-wide.<\/p>\n As reported by the Financial Times<\/a>, Denmark\u2019s growing plant-based food market could be worth up to $2 billion and create 27,000 jobs by the end of the decade.<\/p>\n PBN runs a sponsored content model. To explore how you can get featured, please email [email\u00a0protected]<\/a> or visit everkinddigital.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada has announced a new USD $2.1 billion (CAD $3 billion) food strategy, but it doesn\u2019t mention plant-based…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38002,17,38003,5272,116],"class_list":["post-107145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-alternative-proteins","tag-canada","tag-food-strategy","tag-food-system","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Photo](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/canada-food-system-strategy-alternative-proteins-plant-based-3-1200x800.jpeg\")
Adobe Stock Animal farming and seafood production take a huge toll on the environment, human health, and animals<\/p>\n