Climate Change: It's What's for Dinner | Environmental Impacts
of Meat Campaigning to decrease meat consumption in light of its
heavy environmental impact - through cooking demos, food events,
pledges, online resources and participation in Meatless Mondays.
Led by Christina Bronsing, Graduate student at Wagner The
environmental effects of livestock production play a significant
role in emissions tied to climate change. Livestock alone
creates more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks,
planes, and other fossil-fueled modes of transportation in the
world according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in
their widely cited report, Livestock's Long Shadow. Our current
food system contributes as much as one-third of total greenhouse
gas emissions, and some reports tip the scale closer to half.
Through deliberate partnership, the NYU community will confront
this issue head on through hands-on workshops and a call to
adopt action-oriented behavioral changes. The project's goals
and objectives ar