An Inconvenient Tooth: Food Is Major Contributor to Climate Change

Het blijkt uit onderzoek dat voedsel de grootste menselijke bijdrage genereert aan de klimaatverandering. In de VS is de cateraar Bon Appétit Management Company actief geworden om hier wat aan te doen:.

The nation's pioneer in "greening" food service, is launching a national campaign to reduce their own greenhouse gas emissions and help their guests do the same. With 400 cafés in corporations, universities and specialty venues nationwide—including Yahoo!, Oberlin College and the Seattle Art Museum—Bon Appétit will encourage chefs and diners to think about how their food choices could help ease the climate crisis.

"It is insane to sit down to lunch in Los Angeles and drink water that has traveled 5,000 miles from Fiji," said Helene York, director of the Bon Appétit Management Company Foundation, the program's organizer. "We are scrutinizing our own food habits to reduce our carbon footprint as a company, and we are helping our guests do the same on an individual level."

Tijdens het Nationaal Sustainability Congres zal uitdrukkelijk aan duurzame voeding en streekproducten aandacht worden geschonken. Er hebben zich al cateraars gemeld die hier een bijdrage aan willen leveren.