Universities Should Lead on the Plant-Based Dietary Transition

In the Lancet Planetary Health, Edel Sanders and her colleagues encourage universities to align their on-campus dining options with the latest research on the environmental impacts of food production. In addition to the planetary harms caused by animal agriculture such as the “degradation and overexploitation of ecosystems, misallocation of water and land, risk of pandemics, air and water pollution,” they note the resultant animal suffering of this food production sector as well.

For more details see: Krattenmacher, J., Casal, P., Dutkiewicz, J., Huchard, E., Sanders, E., et al. (2023). Universities should lead on the plant-based dietary transition. The Lancet Planetary Health, 7(5), e354–e355.

https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(23)00082-7