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PERSPECTIVES ON ANIMAL BIOSCIENCES (Open Access)

The societal role of meat: the Dublin Declaration with an Australian perspective

David W. Pethick https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3255-7677 A * , Wayne L. Bryden https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7187-4464 B , Neil J. Mann C , David G. Masters D and Ian J. Lean https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1045-7907 E
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A Food Futures Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia.

B Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld 4072, Australia.

C School of Agriculture and Food, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic. 3052, Australia.

D School of Agriculture and Environment, Faculty of Science, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.

E Scibus and The University of Sydney, Camden, NSW 2570, Australia.

* Correspondence to: d.pethick@murdoch.edu.au

Handling Editor: Frank Dunshea

Animal Production Science 63(18) 1805-1826 https://doi.org/10.1071/AN23061
Submitted: 7 February 2023  Accepted: 21 April 2023  Published: 29 May 2023

© 2023 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

Abstract

It is clear that the societal role of meat is being challenged with ideological and simplified logic without substantiation from robust data-driven science. With this background, the international summit titled ‘The societal role of meat – what the science says’ was held in Dublin, Ireland, during October 2022, to provide evidence-based evaluations and the Dublin Declaration was signed by over 1000 scientists. In this paper, we provide a synopsis of the summit and then give context for evaluating the societal role of meat in Australia. The key themes of the summit were the essential roles of meat in (1) diet and health, (2) a sustainable environment and (3) society, economics and culture. Evidence clearly showed the role of meat as a nutrient-dense source of high-quality protein and micronutrients that can be safely consumed by humans. Further, the complementary role of livestock in agricultural systems was highlighted with both plant- and animal-based agriculture reliant on each other to maximise the efficient production of food. Thus, from both an Australian and world perspective, very little food considered to be human-edible is fed to livestock. The role of livestock in rural societies across the world was emphasised to underpin regional and national economies, with particular importance in those countries with developing economies to facilitate growing wealth to ‘step out’ of poverty and provide gender equality. Meat production, particularly from ruminants, is a critical part of Australian primary production and it is concluded that the Dublin Declaration is highly relevant to Australia. Finally, concern regarding future funding and organisation of research and extension is discussed. There is a need to continue funding highly collaborative programs that bring a broad range of disciplines together, in conjunction with undergraduate and postgraduate teaching to underpin the social license to operate for meat and livestock production.

Keywords: circularity, diet, livestock, meat, methane, nutrition, population health, sustainability.

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