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New Data Finds Climate-Friendly, Healthy Meals Within Reach for Public Schools | Common Dreams

‘BERKELEY, CALIF. – A new case study is the first of its kind to use life-cycle assessment data to show how meat and cheese reduction in school food is an effective strategy for both mitigating climate change and serving affordable, healthy meals. Friends of the Earth partnered with Oakland CA Unified School District to document how a 30 percent reduction in meat, poultry and cheese purchases over two years shrank the school district’s carbon footprint by 14 percent.’

Source: New Data Finds Climate-Friendly, Healthy Meals Within Reach for Public Schools | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

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