The survey, which was commissioned by Global Food Security, a UK alliance of public funders of food-related research, asked more than 2000 people about their attitudes to climate change and its linkages to the food system.
Of those who agreed that human behaviour is resulting in the earth’s climate changing, two thirds said that the food system is a key contributor to climate change, and the same proportion agreed that we could significantly reduce the impact of climate change if we all made changes to our diets.
Young people, aged 18-24, were most open to changing their diets, particularly regarding adopting vegetarian, pescatarian or vegan diets. However, six in ten of those surveyed said that they would never consider a vegan diet, half would never consider a pescatarian diet and two in five would never consider a vegetarian diet.
But most would like to receive more information on climate change and its relationship with the food system, suggesting more could be done to increase awareness.
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