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Environmental Leader says Business, Youth and Meat reduction key to tackling climate change
--Progress on climate connection with diet, business often answer—with more sustainable food choices, Sustainable Earth Eating (SEE) leader says
Washington (11-01-23) Edgar Ndjatou, President of Sustainable Earth Eating recognized consumer change in Food is Climate newsletter today, “There has definitely been …change by individuals in their diets to reduce meat as more studies show larger impact from reducing livestock production equals larger impacts in greenhouse gas reduction.”
Ndjatou, who is also head of Workplace Fairness, continued: “The hope is that as more people make these individual decisions, it will start to have a bigger impact on the global market for livestock agriculture.”
Ndjatou, who helped SEE’s launch in 2021, salutes its mission to address climate change, saying “but it requires individual and collaborative work,” cited an EcoWatch study that said replacing 50% of meat and dairy with plant-based alternatives could reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions by 31% by 2050.[footnoteRef:1] [1: Gund Institute for Environment, University of Vermont, Co-author Eva Wollenberg, an anthropologist and natural resource management specialist for Environment. (2023)]
The SEE President cited actions such as:
· Educating different populations on how to prepare meals that do not require meat but still provide the same nutrients.
· Non-profit alignment with businesses bringing to market food products that use less or no meat or otherwise promote a reduced meat diet.
· Power of Youth in Climate Change: it is always a good strategy to bring new ideas to youth because they are naturally more curious and receptive to new ways of thinking. ...they will soon be the stewards of our planet and will have to make important decisions on how to best deal with climate change policy. This will include examining how diets affect climate change.
· Cited study: Replacing 50% of the chicken, beef, pork, and milk products consumed by humans with plant-based alternatives could reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions by 31% by 2050 as compared to 2020 levels, according to a study reported in EcoWatch.
To see the full interview, please click here.
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