Today's Close-Up S2025E34 - Our Diet in the Age of Extreme Heat

Increasingly hot summers are taking a heavy toll on agriculture across Japan and posing a serious threat to food production. At pig farms, workers say the extreme heat is sickening their animals and affecting their growth. It's a similar story at dairy farms, where the heat is weakening cows and reducing milk yields. If we fail to take countermeasures against global warming now, our dining table in the year 2100 will look very different. We report on some ways that farmers are starting to adapt, and, with help from experts, we project the future of Japanese food production.