How to Eat a Planet-Friendly Diet

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Originally published at: https://ethical.net/guide/how-to-eat-a-planet-friendly-diet/

If you live in a developed country, it can seem churlish to complain about the global food system of farmers, suppliers and retailers that makes sure our supermarket shelves are always fully stocked. But as grateful as we should be for food security and variety that our ancestors—and the 820 million people in the world…

[Steve]

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[pictureanca]

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[John]

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One final note: even if you go fully vegan, you can’t eat a planet-friendly diet without reducing your food waste. Globally, a third of the food produced each year is lost or wasted; in industrialised countries 40% of these losses happen in shops or at home.

This is a really important point I think, even if nobody on the planet actually changed what is in their diet at all we could already reduce the impact on the planet by a massive amount just by reducing waste!