MSF - OCP's Global Environmental Footprint Initiative
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Going vegan is the most important thing MSF can do for the environment -Make all food provided in the field and HQs vegan.
Meat & dairy are in the top 3 most environmentally damaging industries, producing 60% of agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions & cause acidification, eutrophication & excessive water use.
-Without meat/dairy consumption, farmland could be reduced by 75% & still feed the world. Loss of wild areas to agriculture is the leading cause of mass extinction.
-Human health concerns - eg antibiotic resistance from intensive farming.
-Without meat/dairy consumption, farmland could be reduced by 75% & still feed the world. Loss of wild areas to agriculture is the leading cause of mass extinction.
-Human health concerns - eg antibiotic resistance from intensive farming.
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Besides the fact that I believe it is not up to MSF to impose a specific food diet to it's employees, I don't think that the meat and dairy purchased locally in our projects come from the worst type of farming you describe. Where I've been it was usually very local and produced traditionnally rather than by carbon-intensive production means (I would assume it is the case in most places where we work). I also remember in South Sudan that the vegetables had to be FLOWN into the some of the projects from the capital because they were so scarce in some places..
So I would rather say: eat LOCAL (and stop providing Nutella for sure).
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