Tim Lang and Pamela Mason make the case for diets that are sustainable as well as healthy, while Philip Lymbery exposes the far-reaching impacts of intensive agriculture.
How to eat in a way that keeps us healthy and satisfied, but also protects and restores our natural environment? Two new books from authors with Sustain connections look at this urgent question from different angles.
Exploring the case for sustainable diets in the Anthropocene, Sustainable Diets is subtitled 'How Ecological Nutrition Can Transform Consumption and the Food System'. Its authors are the veteran food campaigner and academic Professor Tim Lang, and Pamela Mason, both of whom have links to Sustain member the Centre for Food Policy at City, University of London. The book notes that while food production and consumption are key factors in global environmental change, policy makers have been hesitant to reshape public eating habits in order to tackle the unsustainability of the global food system.
Meanwhile, in Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were, Philip Lymbery, director of Sustain member Compassion in World Farming, has travelled the world to expose how intensive farming -- especially for livestock production -- is devastating wildlife, habitats and biodiversity.
Friends of Sustain can order the books at a discount -- use the code on the flyer for Dead Zone here, and quote FLR40 at the checkout for Sustainable Diets here.
Sustain campaigns for a healthier, greener and fairer food system. Find more about our activities here.
Published Friday 10 March 2017
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