Food Choice and Climate Change

Holy smokes, folks, check out this awesome resource to help us make fact-based, truly good kitchen choices re: climate change. For the planet today and for the kids, too!

A few surprises to me:

Cheese (oh how I love cheese) is sometimes worse, in terms of CO2 emissions and food waste than pork, especially if you source your pork from a place with good, humane standards of treatment.

Farmed shrimp is way worse than mollusks (think: oysters and clams). A remaining issue for me, though, is how much plastics waste comes with such choices. Those plastic grocery net things for buying mollusks…? ugh, don’t get me started. Ask the grocer if you can get ’em wrapped in paper, then get them back into water as soon as you get home.

No surprises there:

Beef bad. A vegan diet is best of all. And no, you don’t have to go radical-crazy eating only fallen nuts. Just swap out a few things every now and then, cut back on the worst offenders, and – hello – simply pay attention. Thanks for caring 🙂

Meanwhile, here’s to those beans and greens! And here’s a recipe or two , wait – another! – to get you started.