UK Hospitals to Cut Carbon by Slicing Meat
| Hospitals will take meat off menus in bid to cut carbon |
| Meat-free menus are to be promoted in hospitals as part of a strategy to cut global warming emissions across the National Health Service. |
| On Tuesday, Pencheon and the NHS chief executive, David Nicholson, will publish the strategy - Saving Carbon, Improving Health - which will set targets to cut the organisation\’s carbon footprint, and proposals to meet them. |
| Among the most talked-about is likely to be the suggestion that hospitals could cut carbon emissions from food and drink by offering fewer meat and dairy products. |
| Last year, the United Nations climate chief, Rajendra Pachauri, provoked a global debate when he said having a meat-free day every week was the biggest single contribution people could make to curbing climate change in their personal lives |
| Last week, the German federal environment agency went further, advising people to eat meat only on special occasions. |
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January 26th, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized
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January 27th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Nothing I read ever brings me much hope, but this comes AWFULLY close. Thank you for posting this.
January 27th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
that really IS something to talk about…thanks for the update!