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https://www.carbonbrief.org/adopting-low-cost-healthy-diets-could-cut-food-emissions-by-one-third/>
"Choosing the “least expensive” healthy food options could cut dietary
emissions by one-third, according to a recent study.
In addition to the lower emissions, diets composed of low-cost, healthy foods
would cost roughly one-third as much as a diet of the most-consumed foods in
every country.
The study, published in
Nature Food, compares prices and emissions associated
with 440 local food products in 171 countries.
The researchers identify some food groups that are low in both cost and
emissions, including legumes, nuts and seeds, as well as oils and fats.
Some of the most widely consumed foods – such as wheat, maize, white beans,
apples, onions, carrots and small fish – also fall into this category, the
study says.
One of the lead authors tells
Carbon Brief that while food marketing has
promoted the idea that eating environmentally friendly diets is “very fancy and
expensive”, the study shows that such diets are achievable through cheap,
everyday foods.
Meanwhile, a separate
Nature Food study found that reforming the policies
that reduce taxes on meat products in the EU could decrease food-related
emissions by up to 5.7%."
Via
Reasons to be Cheerful:
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https://reasonstobecheerful.world/what-were-reading-tax-us-more-say-the-super-rich/>
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
