Both perceived benefits and barriers to vegetarianism significantly predicted participant meat consumption (red meat, poultry, and seafood). Overall, results indicate an increase in the number of people who are aware that meat-eating has environmental impacts, although they believe its...
But no less than in our DNA, the sights, scents, and rituals of meat eating are in our cultural DNA" (The War of Delicious pg. 5). Meat in today's culture is no longer healthy for humans, we do not realize this because as it states in the quote, 'eating meat is in our cultura...
Campbell, Eating like there's no tomorrow: Public awareness of the environmental impact of food and reluctance to eat less meat as part of a sustainable diet. Appetite, 2015. 96: p. 487-493.Macdiarmid, J.I.; Douglas, F.; Campbell, J. Eating like there's no tomorrow: Public awareness...
For eutrophication, the low-meat diet has an impact that is 57.4% (49.6–68.4%) of the high-meat-eating group. For land use, the impact of low meat-eaters is 43.8% (20.7–65.4%) of the high meat-eaters. For both water use and biodiversity impact, there are much bigger gaps for ...
A comprehensive study that examined the environmental impact of vegan diets compared with vegetarianism, fish eating, and meat-eating, found clear advantages for veganism. The study, published in the journal Nature, looked at the dietary consumption of 55,504 people in the U.K. and foods fro...
UK nature presenter David Attenborough has pointed out, "We must change our diet. The planet can't support billions of meat-eaters."Consumers have questioned the price and healthiness of plant-based meat, since it is a relatively new product—the long-term health effects of directly replacing ...
Moreover, higher Alternate Healthy Eating Index (AHEI) scores were associated with impressive reductions in the risk of primary chronic disease (McCullough et al., 2002). Furthermore, recommended diets contributed to decrease the effects on GHG, land use, and eutrophication of 24.8%,21.3%, and ...
this may have played a role in the lack of increase in these options in the availability condition, and raises questions about how meat-free availability could be increased without the potential for knock-on effects of customers going elsewhere to purchase the foods they may prefer consuming (e...
What evidence exists on the effects of public policy interventions for achieving environmentally sustainable food consumption? (Environmentally) sustainable consumption, e.g. food consumption, was defined as the use of goods and services to respond to basic needs and improve quality of life, while min...
Eating our way out of trouble? Across the world, human diets are changing as incomes grow, with potential impacts for the environment as well as public health. David Tilman and Michael Clark have quantified the effects of dietary 'westernization' and for many aspects of diet, they find a tig...