UK Hospitals to Go Veg?
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Monday, February 2nd, 2009, 10:00 PM
We gotta say, the pronouncement perked our ears up: British hospitals to promote cutting back on meat to help the climate?
Juliette Jowit, from the British rag The Guardian, reported on a plan to eliminate meat from hospital menus across the UK. The action would be part of a larger strategy by the National Health Service (UK) to lower carbon emissions and save money, which could then be redirected into patient care.
Check it out here.
The National Health Service was inspired by a study they conducted last year through which they discovered that their emissions alone account for approximately 3% of the country’s s total emissions. If the NHS was a country, this emissions toll would rank them the planet’s 81st worst emitter in 2004.
The NHS has proposed both long- and short-term changes, from “urging people to drink less bottled water to more phone-in surgeries by GPs to the food: The NHS is planning to limit meat and dairy on hospital menus. David Pencheon, director of NHS’s sustainable development unit, said, “We’d like higher levels of fresh food, and probably higher levels of fresh fruit and veg, and more investment in a local economy.”
Sounds good to us.
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:13 pm
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February 19th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
Meat is cheap because it does not account for the hidden costs to produce meat. I am for meat free Monday at least……