Edible Insects
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Edible insects have always been a part of human diets, but in some societies there remains a degree of disdain and disgust for their consumption. Insects offer a significant opportunity to merge traditional knowledge and modern science to improve human food security worldwide. This publication describes the contribution of insects to food security and examines future prospects for raising insects at a commercial scale to improve food and feed production, diversify diets, and support livelihoods in both developing and developed countries. Edible insects are a promising alternative to the conventional production of meat, either for direct human consumption or for indirect use as feedstock. This publication will boost awareness of the many valuable roles that insects play in sustaining nature and human life, and it will stimulate debate on the expansion of the use of insects as food and feed.
Sustainable Diets
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How can huge populations be fed healthily, equitably and affordably while maintaining the ecosystems on which life depends? The evidence of diet¿s impact on public health and the environment has grown in recent decades, yet changing food supply, consumer habits and economic aspirations proves hard. This book explores what is meant by sustainable diets and why this has to be the goal for the Anthropocene, the current era in which human activities are driving the mismatch of humans and the planet. Food production and consumption are key drivers of transitions already underway, yet policy makers hesitate to reshape public eating habits and tackle the unsustainability of the global food system. The authors propose a multi-criteria approach to sustainable diets, giving equal weight to nutrition and public health, the environment, socio-cultural issues, food quality, economics and governance. This six-pronged approach to sustainable diets brings order and rationality to what either is seen as too complex to handle or is addressed simplistically and ineffectually. The book provides a major overview of this vibrant issue of interdisciplinary and public interest. It outlines the reasons for concern and how actors throughout the food system (governments, producers, civil society and consumers) must engage with (un)sustainable diets.
In this talk, Tim Lang grapples with the issues surrounding what is a good diet for people's health and environmental sustainability. He moves from the work of Ancel Keys to Sweden's attempt to address this through policy changes in the EU to the failure of the 2nd International Conference on Nutrition to tackle the crucial big issues. One of the central ones being 'do I eat fish?'. He rejects nanny corporations as the entities telling us what to eat through their marketing but grapples with the problems of eating meat, dairy and fish as well as over, under and mal consumption. The science on both environmental and public health nutrition grounds agrees a plant based diet is best but this has to be produced in ways that safeguard biodiversity. Achieving sustainable diets is a political issue as it is about questions of control. Following a century which separated people from their roots he calls for a contract and converge approach to achieving both sustainable diets and the sustainable development goals.
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret is een documentaire uit 2014, geregisseerd en geproduceerd door Kip Andersen en Keegan Kuhn. De film onderzoekt de impact van de veehouderij op het milieu en hoe (Amerikaanse en internationale) milieuorganisaties met die informatie omgaan. Het gaat hierbij om organisaties zoals Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Surfrider Foundation en Rainforest Action Network.
Bekijk de volledige documentaire film via Netflix.
The PLANeT BASED DIET
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THE PLANeT BASED DIET is the official cookbook from Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn, the makers of the award winning documentary "Cowspiracy - The Sustainability Secret" - a film that moved millions of people and started an environmental revolution.The chapters are written by the hilarious author and screenwriter Laura Hooper Beck (Cosmopolitan, Jezebel, Vegnews) and just like the film, this cookbook takes you on a rollercoaster of a journey to explore why eating a plant based and vegan diet is the best thing you can do to protect the environment. Each chapter addresses a different environmental issue while offering mouth-watering solutions to avoid destroying the planet. With a variety of easy-to make, yet delicious recipes, this book is the perfect companion for everyone who cares about the environment.Whether you are an absolute newbie or die-hard eco-warrior, this book will help you transition into a planet friendly diet.
The Sustainability Secret
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Discover the biggest issue in conservation today. This companion to the documentary Cowspiracy explores the impacts of the most environmentally destructive industry on the planet: animal agriculture.
A 3 minutes video in which the world food issue and the role of Rabo Bank is explained.