- About 25% of all the global climate change problems we are observing can be attributed to the food and the choices that we actually make on a daily basis. Different foods and diets have different carbon footprints. Livestock accounts for over 14% of global greenhouse gas emissions, which is that sort equal to transportation (cars, trucks, planes, trains and ships combined).
- We do not have to be Vegan; we can swap to chicken and fish, obviously. If we can just reduce our red meat intake a little bit, we can help the climate a lot.
- On another note, just switching to a Mediterranean diet can potentially solve 15% of global warming pollution by 2050.
Please see:
Article Sustainable Food Systems and the Mediterranean Diet
Dear Navindra Boodia . See the following useful RG link: Article Climate change mitigation through dietary change: A systemat...
Kindly see also the following useful RG link: Article The Impacts of Dietary Change on Greenhouse Gas Emissions, L...
Also check please the following useful RG link: Article The Role of Healthy Diets in Environmentally Sustainable Food Systems
The following link is also very useful: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/subtopics/climate-change-nutrition/
Visit kindly the following useful RG link: Article Climate change mitigation in food systems: the environmental...
Thank you loads, Dear Aref Wazwaz
I will surely go through your suggested links.
There is no need to eat meat. It is also a good idea to eat less dairy. I have to admit that I am very fond of cheese, and I like some milk in my coffee. However the latter can surely be oat milk at least in Norther Europe where I live. Food based on oats is undoubtedly more sustainable than other protein rich foods, for instance those based on almonds, which need a lot of water to ripen.
I think, nowdays, the saving in food consumption is more important than the diet type.
You can look at this:
Climate change mitigation through dietary change - IOPscience
https://iopscience.iop.org › article
by S Jarmul · 2020 ·
This is a good idea, and is already being adopted by people in many countries.
Thank you each one of you: Emmanuel V Murray , Abhijit Mitra , Mateen Yilmaz Al-Bayati , Amir Naserin , Wiebina Heesterman
Your valuable answers helped in the discussion.
It is true also with soaring food prices currently, food choices are limited.
Dietary changes are limited these days. How is it in your respective countries?
This is the vital issue.... diet consumption impacts the ambient temperature
Dear Navindra, look at this two studies from Slow Food, the first one comparing sustainable food products with industrial ones, and the second about the presidium programs themselves:
https://www.slowfood.com/carbon-footprint/environmental-impacts-generated-by-presidia-and-ark-of-taste-products/
https://www.slowfood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Report_INDACO_EN.pdf
Good afternoon, that information is very good, this is how alternative solutions are sought without reaching a vegan diet. I was reviewing and this link was very interesting. Blessings
Thank you Lazara Esther Fernández Mendoza to contribute to the discussion.
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