2. Vegan, vegetarian or flexitarian? Sustainable diets and smart food choices

Put down your hamburgers! This week we are tucking into the topic of sustainable diets, looking at the many, many environmental impacts of the food industry and finding out why many of us are moving to vegan, vegetarian or flexitarian diets.

We’re looking at the future of food security in a growing world, the carbon emissions and water demands of different food-producing practices, nifty new farming and agriculture technologies, and whether or not that all means we all have to turn 100% vegan.

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Things we chat about:

The Water Calculator: https://www.watercalculator.org/

Pineapples: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46070037

Vertical farming: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/14/world-largest-vertical-farm-newark-green-revolution

BBC calculator/comparison tool for food and drink: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46459714

What to eat more/less of/consider: https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/five-foods-that-could-save-the-planet-and-five-more-that-definitely-wont/

The Conspiracy documentary: http://www.cowspiracy.com/

Fiber and our immune systems: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1038/cti.2016.29

Lancet Planetary Health paper: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(18)30174-8/fulltext

The Green Roasting Tin cookbook: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Roasting-Tin-Vegetarian-Dinners/dp/1910931896

 

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