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3.1. How to eat environmentally friendly

According to the “Environment on Plate” study, food is one of the top three According to Silvennoinen (September 13, 2016), the diet and food chain
environmentalists. The study says that the other two major hotspots are housing accounts for as much as 40% of all environmental impacts of consumption, i.e.
and motoring. more than traffic or living. 40% of this is accounted for by primary production,
(Haapakorpi 2016, 19.) industry, shops, restaurants, shopping trips, and cooking and storage of food.
Primary production, stores and catering services generate a total of 190-220
Roininen et al. (2014) implemented the climate lunch project “Climate lunch in million. kg of CO2 per year.
restaurants” managed by MTT (Natural Resources Institute of Finland since (Haapakorpi 2016, 19.)
2015) during the years 2013-2014. The project stated that the worst carbon
footprint is about 50-80% of agriculture. The project mainly examined climate
loads between different lunch meals. Based on these, the project developed a Eat seasonal food. Seasonality gives you opportunity to eat locally — Check
climate concept to reduce the carbon footprint of lunch. According to studies, the out what’s growing nearby right now.
least heavily-consumed lunches were vegetarian lunches and lunches made Eat local. As always when buying local, you’ll be reducing the distance that
from low-carbon fish as well as lunches made of skimmed milk or hybrid. food must travel — and the energy it takes to do so — on its way to your plate.
(Haapakorpi 2016, 14.)
Eat little or less meet. Industrially farmed meat has the greatest impact on
Photo from Espoo by Amira Saad. (CC-BY-NC-ND) the environment.

AND just take what you can eat on a plate.

Reduce waste.
• The most important thing for eating environmentally friendly is to cut
down meat consumption, e.g. by reducing it to once a week.

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