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In some cities' schools in Finland, the students are offered two options, a vegetarian and a non-vegetarian meal, on four school days a week, and one day a week they have a choice between two vegetarian meals, for grades 1 to 12. In secondary schools and universities, from 10 to 40 percent of the students preferred vegetarian food in 2013.
Planetary health diet: dietary paradigms that have the following aims: to feed a growing world's population, to greatly reduce the worldwide number of deaths caused by poor diet, and to be environmentally sustainable as to prevent the collapse of the natural world.
Animal-free farming may use organic or non-organic farming methods. However, most detailed discussions of animal-free agriculture currently focus on animal-free organic variants. [4] In the European Union, farmers have a financial incentive to use manure instead of animal-free fertilisers, since manure is subsidised.
Public Radio International estimated in 2013 that 4–5% of China's population was vegetarian, representing over 50 million people. [1] Like many other languages, the Chinese languages did not have a native word for the English word "vegan" and often uses (Chinese: 纯素; pinyin: Chún sù) （"pure Vegetarian"）to refer to it. [2]
Education appears to decide the choice of vegetarian/non-vegetarian foods. Those who have studied up to five years eat the highest amount of eggs and meat; men (54% and 58%) and women (48% and 52%). [7] Among religions, Christians consume eggs and meat the most; men 71.5% and 76% and women 65% and 74%, respectively.
ProVeg International (/ ˈ p r ə ʊ v ɛ d ʒ / [2]) is a non-governmental organisation that works in the field of food system change and has ten offices globally. The organisation's stated mission is to reduce the consumption of animal products by 50% by 2040, to be replaced by plant-based or cultured alternatives. [3]
Bucharest World Population Conference, 19–30 August 1974, Bucharest, Romania; the first International Conference on Population organized at the intergovernmental level by the United Nations, attended by more than 1,400 delegates from 136 countries (from a total of 138 UN member states at the time);
The planetary health diet, also called a planetary diet or planetarian diet, is a flexitarian diet created by the EAT-Lancet commission [1] [2] as part of a report released in The Lancet on 16 January 2019. [3] The aim of the report and the diet it developed is to create dietary paradigms that have the following aims: [2]