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Not a direct answer, but related:

Poore, J. & Nemecek, T. (2018) Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers. Science, 360(6392), pp. 987-992.

meat, aquaculture, eggs, and dairy use ~83% of the world’s farmland and contribute 56 to 58% of food’s different emissions, despite providing only 37% of our protein and 18% of our calories.

Moving from current diets to a diet that excludes animal products has transformative potential, reducing food’s land use by 3.1 billion ha (a 76% reduction), including a 19% reduction in arable land; food’s GHG emissions by 6.6 billion metric tons of CO2eq (a 49% reduction); acidification by 50%; eutrophication by 49%; and scarcity-weighted freshwater withdrawals by 19%

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Here you go. And within 30 second we have: Members of the executive council.

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It's in the press release they linked:

This research was supported by an NSERC Discovery Grant and is associated with the University of Guelph’s Food from Thought project, supported by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund.

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It's in the press release they linked:

This research was supported by an NSERC Discovery Grant and is associated with the University of Guelph’s Food from Thought project, supported by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund.