Can meatless Mondays actually help the environment?
Starting in the fall, New York City Public School breakfasts and lunches will look a little different on Mondays. This week Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a plan for “Meatless Mondays” in all of the city’s public schools starting with the 2019-2020 school year.
“Replacing meat even one day a week can improve our health and cut greenhouse gas emissions,” said Robert Jackson, a professor in the Earth System Science Department at Stanford University, told Newsweek. The city tested the new plan with a pilot program in 15 schools across the city before making the change system-wide.
Global gas emissions from livestock alone, excluding those from manure, account for 7.1 gigatons of carbon dioxide each year, 14.5 percent of the human-made greenhouse gases total, according to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. Beef and cattle milk are responsible for the majority of those emissions, 41 and 20 percent, respectively, of the greenhouse gas output for the sector, according to the FAO.
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