Report: Thailand Could Add Millions of Jobs & Billions of Dollars of Economic Value with 50% Plant-Based Shift
As Southeast Asia’s leading protein producer and the only country in the region that exports more protein than it imports, Thailand has the experience and expertise to become a global hub of sustainable proteins. The benefits will be enormous if the country realizes its potential and replaces half of its meat and seafood production with plant-based proteins by 2050: it could create more than a million additional jobs, add billions of dollars of economic value to its economy, and cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by millions of tons per year. These statements are from a new report — “Kitchen of the Future” — commissioned by Madre Brava, a US environmental group raising awareness about the impacts of animal agriculture on the planet, and produced by …
