We recently released a booklet in conjunction with Vegetarian Victoria and Vegan Australia, titled “The Low Emissions Diet: Eating for a safe climate”.
If interested, you can download it here or by clicking this image:
In a nutshell:
- The booklet includes a sample of vegan recipes from The Kind Cook, with charts showing their greenhouse gas emissions.
- The charts show how emissions would increase if you added various ingredients, such as meat and fish.
- We’ve provided some context to emissions from animal-based foods by comparing them to emissions from:
– plant-based foods
– high-emissions activities such as aluminium smelting and fossil fuel based power generation
– motor vehicles - There are comments on nutrients such as protein, iron, zinc, calcium, vitamin D and vitamin B12.
- There are sections on:
– greenhouse gases and black carbon
– land clearing
– emissions intensity of Australian beef - There are also comments on the so-called “climatarian” diet, which avoids products from ruminant animals, such as cattle and sheep. Due to the global community’s precarious position on the edge of a climate change precipice, we argue that if the diet is to achieve its intended aims, it must also exclude pig meat, chicken meat, fish, egg and dairy products.
We hope you find it useful.
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terrastendo 
Is a hard copy available ? I would live to buy it as a gift.
Thanks Donna. Unfortunately, it’s only available electronically at present.
Hi Donna, if you’re still interested, I am printing some copies, and will make them available for $20. That will include postage within Australia. Funds will go toward another cause I’m involved in, Melbourne Pig Save. Please provide details via the Contact page if you’d like one, and I can let you know about payment methods.
Jeez Paul, these look amazing. It is so refreshing to find a vegetarian/vegan cookbook that goes with the veggie flow and doesn’t try to make everything look and/or taste like meat. I have a few friends and a daughter who have all seen cowspiracy who are trying to make the change. I’ll circulate this to them. cheers Bede
On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 12:01 PM, terrastendo wrote:
> terrastendo posted: ” I recently released a booklet in conjunction with > Vegetarian Victoria and Vegan Australia, titled “The Low Emissions Diet: > Eating for a safe climate”. I’ve included two versions at the bottom of > this post, so that you can choose the one that works ” >
Thanks Bede. Your friends and daughter might also be interested in Animals Australia’s Vegetarian Starter Kit (http://whyveg.com/kit/) and Veganeasy (http://www.veganeasy.org/).
Paul Mahony, thankyou for this wonderful addition to your ongoing wake up call about the impact of animal agribusiness on global climate change! What a terrific way to reach more people…I look forward to sharing it far and wide…thankyou!
Thanks for all your support Dianne. People are slowly waking up to the “elephant”.
Niche nutrition, Australian style – pass! We agree on pork [fer porkers] & chicken [fowl is foul] but must indulge in grass fed beef, eggs & cheese! Oh well…seems like a little wild caught fish can be acceptable too! Climate change & global warming ought to be merely attributed to hell gittin hotter!
“Must” shouldn’t come into it Mike. It’s a choice at huge cost to you, the planet and all inhabitants.