Sustainability In Your Ear: IFT’s Brendan Niemira on Why Food Science Is Climate Science

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By Mitch RatcliffeJun 1, 2026, 7:00 am105 ptsTrending
About a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions come from the food system, but the public conversation about food and climate keeps getting stuck at the two ends of the chain — what farmers grow on one side, what consumers buy on the other. The middle of that chain — processing, packaging, distribution,…

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