Will 2017 be the year we get serious about sustainable food?

The next few years could be pivotal for sustainable food in the realms of organic farming, sustainable fishing and plant based meat alternatives

Americans love to eat. Each person devours, on average, 1,996 lbs - or nearly a ton - of food per year. The enormous effort to satisfy that big appetite creates significant environmental impacts, from fertilizers leaching into our water supplies and overfishing to massive die-offs of bees from pesticides and habitat loss.

Our eating habits come with tremendous social costs, too. More than 70% of the adults in the US and about a third of children are overweight. The medical cost of treating people who are grossly overweight, or obese, reached $147bn within the past decade.