Brian Kateman : How to reduce your diet's carbon footprint — without going vegan

 

Brian Kateman·TEDxCUNY
How to reduce your diet's carbon footprint — without going vegan
Summary 

Recently, we often hear the words vegan, vegetarian, and diet’s carbon footprint. 

A vegan means that a person follows the diet or philosophy of veganism which rejects the commodity status of animals. 

A vegetarian means that a person believes in vegetarianism which is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat including fish, eggs and etc. 

Diet’s carbon footprint is also called Food’s carbon footprint, or foodprint. It means that the greenhouse gas emissions produced by growing, rearing, farming, processing, transporting, storing, cooking, and disposing of the food you eat. Could we be a vegan or vegetarian for stopping greenhouse gas emissions? It'll lead to stopping climate change.The speaker asked us. Unfortunately, he wasn’t a vegan and vegetarian, but he suggests that we can be a reducitarian soon. 

A reducitarian is someone who’s making the conscious choice to decrease the amount of meat they consume. You don’t need a drastic lifestyle change but you can set manageable and therefore, actionable goals to gradually reduce your meat consumption. 

In fact, only 5% of Americans consider themselves to be a vegetarian, however, if the rest of all people would be a reducitarian who ate meat before try to eat it only on the weekends, it must reduce food’s carbon footprint dramatically and obviously!! We will save our planet, improve our health and save a lot of animals.