{"id":8053,"date":"2022-02-17T09:36:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T09:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=8053"},"modified":"2022-02-17T09:36:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T09:36:41","slug":"dieting-for-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2022\/02\/17\/dieting-for-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Dieting for the planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is a climatarian diet, and can it save the world? \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/pebblemag.com\/magazine\/eating-drinking\/climatarian-diet?utm_source=pebble+post+12+January&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Newsletter\">Pebble magazine<\/a> (essential reading) has been looking into this idea. \u00a0In a nutshell, it says (no pun surely intended) the diet involves eating with the planet in mind. \u00a0<em><strong>Planet = Plant + \"e for environment\"<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0so to speak. \u00a0Nifty. \u00a0I sense an advertising campaign.<\/p>\n<p>It's predominantly a\u00a0plant-based diet focusing on whole rather than processed food. \u00a0Pebble Mag doesn\u2019t rule out meat consumption or animal products, encouraging us to reduce but not eliminate them (so it's a \"Boo!\" from the militant vegan crowd). \u00a0And it\u2019s about eating local and seasonal produce to reduce food miles. \u00a0Of course, it\u2019s also about reducing plastic packaging, limiting food waste and choosing sustainable food brands and businesses. \u00a0Such a\u00a0diet could reduce my CO2 emissions by 1.5 tonnes a year, I'm told. \u00a0That\u2019s because I'd be \"drastically reducing the carbon emissions caused by growing or producing, processing and transportation.\" \u00a0Just so.<\/p>\n<p>The other key element of a diet to keep in mind is you, the eater; your health and wellbeing. \u00a0Happily, there's no inherent contradiction between these goals. \u00a0Pebble Mag ends with a helpful splash of realism:<\/p>\n<p>\"Ultimately, the climatarian diet is about eating with the intention to reduce the carbon footprint in your diet. \u00a0It\u2019s about doing better rather than being perfect. \u00a0The reality is, the majority of the carbon footprint in the food industry doesn't lie with the consumer. \u00a0The industry still has a long way to go in terms of sustainability.\"<\/p>\n<p>I'm writing this just before lunch at which I'll be eating English cheese and home-made bread made with locally-grown organic flour and a sourdough yeast starter and cooked by electricity from solar panels. \u00a0So far, so climatarian, but I'd best not mention all those salad items lurking in the fridge that came from Spain. \u00a0Or the oranges, bananas and grapefruit. \u00a0I'm still work in progress you see ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a climatarian diet, and can it save the world? \u2013 Pebble magazine (essential reading) has been looking into this idea. \u00a0In a nutshell, it says (no pun surely intended) the diet involves eating with the planet in mind....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}