- Animal meat is obsolete.
It doesn't make any sense in this century.
It's out. It's from last century.
- Before we open the floor for questions in a few minutes,
I would just like to introduce our last speaker.
Bernat Añaños, who's the co-founder of Heura Foods.
- Thank you very much for being here.
It's good that Dian would sneak this debate
in these COOP26, even though if it's difficult,
I'm representing Heura Foods
as one of the leading plant based companies in Europe,
but I'm also representing a whole industry.
All around the world, there are many companies
trying to push this, so I'm not just talking
about Heura Foods, I'm going to talk about
the broader perspective.
I think the summary of what they said,
so they made it very easy to me,
is that animal meat is obsolete.
It doesn't make any sense in this century.
It's out, it's from last century.
So, and I'm gonna put it very, very graphically.
And it's something I use a lot.
Could we imagine ourselves like illuminating our houses
with whale oil?
No one would imagine this or using candles.
We go there and we have a LED light
because we know LED is better than the others.
Same with, are we going by horse?
Do you imagine all the horses here at COP26,
like parked there and with all the problems
that this would have in health,
obviously ethical in animal rights, et cetera et cetera.
This doesn't make any sense, but if we go back,
meat is produced the same way that produced
the whale oil and that was like used transportation,
like horse as a transportation method.
So it is the only, or one of the only sectors
that actually did not evolve.
We are at the same and we are actually not the same.
We are worse because we treat the animals worse.
We put them in very small places.
We, with all the problems antibiotics are creating,
et cetera, et cetera, so we are making it worse
while all the other sectors, we are making steps ahead.
And that's why it's very surprising that COP26,
we are not debating, that's one of the main topics.
I'm not saying that we don't have to debate
about transportation or any other topic,
but food should be at the very center.
And it is irresponsible that beef
is served in this restaurant.
It is irresponsible, it doesn't make any sense.
Would you imag...thank you.
Would you imagine like going through a cancer conference
and like giving cigarettes at the door?
Would not make any sense.
We are in a climate emergency summit
and we know, and there is data there,
there's actually six times more polluting
than the plant-based and we still put it.
It doesn't make any sense.
So sorry, I talk a lot in general.
So I'm going to put like two imaginary worlds.
One imaginary world is that there are companies
around the world showing the plant-based meat is possible.
That it's possible, that actually tastes very, very good,
very close to meat, and in few years will be even better.
Texture-wise it's very good, much more sustainable,
no animals, plus much healthier.
Imagine this world, this world is real
and it's not Heura, it's Beyond Meat.
It's Vivera, the Vegetarian Butcher,
and many other companies all around the world
showing that this is possible.
These is the first and the second is let's imagine a world
where we have this data.
We have the data that we have 10 more animals
killed every year than humans on earth
for human consumption.
Imagine that this is possible in our world.
You might find that we know data
that 60% of the pollution created emissions
created by the food system comes from animal agriculture
while they just provide 18, 18, 1-8%
of the calories worldwide, and just 37% of the protein.
Would think that this would be an inefficient model
of feeding the world, and let's imagine that last year,
one very important university said
that you can reduce your footprint,
just your footprint as an individual by 73%
by ditching dairy and meat, let's imagine this world.
So this world is again possible.
It is possible, and it's not us saying it,
that we're from the plant-based side.
It's University of Oxford it's FAO, F-A-O,
it's United Nations.
They are organizations that are not vegan,
they are organizations that they just follow data.
They do reports and they put data on the table.
So again, we have a tool which is plant-based meat
at the moment, and maybe in the future will be another tool.
But at the moment, we already have a very good tool.
Plant based meat, it is there.
We just have to make it available and democratic.
And we have another tool which is information
and the information is on the table.
So having these two, if we don't like move forward,
if COP is actually not finalizing these like last 10 days
with big like movements ahead in this problem,
that will be irresponsible.
And this is like the main message
as like the whole industry.
And I think we would kind of agree
in that if we end up these COP26
not placing meat at the very center of the debate
and the agreements, it will not make any sense this COP26.
It would be, again, another theater.
So let's not make a theater. This is a call to everyone,
politicians and global leaders.
And then it's a call for all of you guys.
We vote three times a day as humans,
three times a day at least,
the ones that we have the pleasure
to have food on our tables, we vote three times a day
and we can decide which impact we have in the world.
So let's make good decisions,
step-by-step, let's not be perfect,
but I think we have enough information
to start to move forward to a plant-based diet
and like have a better world for animals,
planet and for ourselves as well.
Because there's a lot of data about like how
meat affects your health, so let's move forward.
Thank you. - Thank you.
Thank you very much Bernat for this very passionate speech
and we're going to open the floor now.
I just also wanted to mention that it's good to see
topics like food systems being, getting so much attention,
both in side events and press conferences.
So that's already something good.
Gonna open the floor, in the back?