“Reducing is not enough; we must do something different,” urged Mark Lyons, president and CEO of Alltech, during the Alltech ONE Conference on May 23. ONE welcomed nearly 2,000 international delegates to downtown Lexington, with an additional 5,000 participating virtually.
“Our belief is that agriculture has the greatest potential to positively influence the future of our planet, to provide nutrition for all and to help rural communities thrive and replenish our planet’s resources,” Lyons said.
Lyons was joined by Heather White, author, founder and CEO of “OneGreenThing,” who brought two decades of environmental advocacy work and national nonprofit leadership to life with her book, “One Green Thing: Discover Your Hidden Power to Help Save the Planet.” She offered three steps to make climate action a joyful daily practice.
1. Think beyond your age and listen.
2. Find your unique role.
3. Apply the daily practice of sustainability.
Nikki Putnam Badding, registered dietitian nutritionist and managing director of Acutia, later spoke about the crucial importance of making nutrition accessible to all.
“The impact of malnutrition is far-reaching,” Putnam Badding said. “So, is it enough to just feed the world? Do we instead need to focus on providing nutrition for all, thereby changing the dialogue from food security to nutrition security?”
Vaughn Holder, Alltech ruminant research group director, then shared his perspective on how animal agriculture can be part of the solution to improving sustainability.
“We sit at the interface between the main carbon capturing industry in the world and the main food production industry in the world,” he said. “Those things are tied closely together and unavoidable. We sit in a unique position to be doing something about the carbon argument. It really is important that we do not talk about compromising one for the other — because we have to do both.”
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