[BCFSN] New Lancet Report Sets Targets for Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems

Thu Jan 17 18:10:13 EST 2019

Saw this on social media today via an article from BBC News as well:

A bit of meat, a lot of veg - the flexitarian diet to feed 10bn

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46865204?

From: food [mailto:food-bounces at bcfsn.org] On Behalf Of JK Bays
Sent: January-17-19 2:51 PM
To: BCFSN
Subject: [BCFSN] Fwd: [GFSA] Fwd: New Lancet Report Sets Targets for Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems

Good stuff here...

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From: JK Bays <joanne.k.bays at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [GFSA] Fwd: New Lancet Report Sets Targets for Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems
To: Susan Roberts <susanr.cbr at gmail.com>
Cc: GFSA List serv serv <foodsecurityalberta at mailman.srv.ualberta.ca>

Holy smokes!

Now this is a conversation we should have at our national Farm to School conference ...perhaps with our ministers of agriculture and health and education ...responding

LOVE it

Thanks for sharing

Joanne

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 9:08 AM Susan Roberts <susanr.cbr at gmail.com> wrote:

Hello all! This report is groundbreaking!  It outlines what needs to be done to make our food system - production, processing, eating  and Waste - to ensure we are not harming the earth and the food system is ecologically sustainable!  

Great work!  Susan

Susan Roberts 

Food Secure Canada

Alberta Food Matters

Jasper Local Food Society

Susanr.cbr at gmail.com

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Greetings from Rhode Island!

A new report from the EAT-Lancet Commission for Food, Planet, and Health offers first-ever scientific targets for global diets and sustainable food production. It provides a customizable, universal guideline for healthy eating and a consensus on the urgency of food system change. Using an approach that examines the food system as a whole, the report determines whether food security and environmental sustainability can exist within the same system.

The new guidelines include filling half of each plate with fruits, nuts, and vegetables; transitioning to whole grains; and eating fewer animal products. While this diet can help prevent health risks like heart disease, diabetes, and premature mortality, it also can benefit the environment by diminishing carbon dioxide emissions, and preventing biodiversity loss, land loss, and water pollution. 

The EAT-Lancet Commission sets quantifiable, scientific targets for food system change. These measures—like reducing yield gaps by 75 percent, limiting biodiversity loss to less than ten extinctions per million species per year, and creating a downward trend for food system carbon dioxide emissions before 2020—they hope, will return the food system to within planetary limits, guaranteeing a stable and safe environment. The EAT-Lancet Commission works with civil society, policy makers, and purpose-driven businesses to attain these targets.

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