Put down your hamburgers! This week we are tucking into the topic of sustainable diets, looking at the many, many environmental impacts of the food industry and finding out why many of us are moving to vegan, vegetarian or flexitarian diets.
We’re looking at the future of food security in a growing world, the carbon emissions and water demands of different food-producing practices, nifty new farming and agriculture technologies, and whether or not that all means we all have to turn 100% vegan.
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Things we chat about:
The Water Calculator: https://www.watercalculator.org/
Pineapples: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46070037
Vertical farming: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/14/world-largest-vertical-farm-newark-green-revolution
BBC calculator/comparison tool for food and drink: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46459714
What to eat more/less of/consider: https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/five-foods-that-could-save-the-planet-and-five-more-that-definitely-wont/
The Conspiracy documentary: http://www.cowspiracy.com/
Fiber and our immune systems: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1038/cti.2016.29
Lancet Planetary Health paper: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(18)30174-8/fulltext
The Green Roasting Tin cookbook: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Roasting-Tin-Vegetarian-Dinners/dp/1910931896
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Theme music and sound mixed by Mark Skinner.
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43: British Nature with Lucy Hodson
42: Sea Ice: Why does it matter?
41: HS2: Low-carbon travel or environmental disaster?
40: Lizzie Daly! On animal-human interactions and wildlife presenting
39: Rivers (re-visited!) with Dr. Stephanie Januchowski-Hartley
38: Badgers! (and the ‘C‘ word: culling)
36: Rivers: Pollution, pesticides and
35: Insect Decline with Yussef Rafik, aka The Zoology Guy
34: Lockdown and the environment: changes that can last?
33: Alcohol: Getting sloshed, sustainably (and responsibly)
32: Save the Butterflies, PLUS getting your nature fix during lockdown
31: Water Scarcity: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink
30: Overpopulation: Climate Change‘s Uncomfortable Truth? With Dave Gardner
29: Flooding: Can we blame climate change? Can we do anything about it?
28: Tori Tsui on Modern-day Activism and Fixing The System
26: Renewable Energy: How it Works, Sources and Switching
27: Roxy Furman on Vegan Diets, Activism and Low-Impact Living
25: Strange Sustainability Solutions: Celebrating the Interesting, Innovative and Unusual
24: Wildfires: Causes, Biodiversity Loss and Climate Change
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