Lunch with Tang Feng: Practicing Sustainability, Starting from "How to Eat" Starting with the interesting question of "the distance between the stomach and the mouth", Tang Feng showed off today's lunch box on the other side of the video camera, including local spinach leaves, blueberries, sunflower seeds, chia seeds, quinoa and other abundant grains and vegetables, and chatted about the reason why she started ordering this meal from the 2021 Lunar New Year: "After the menu designed by the chef and nutritionist, and the recipe package of washed, cut and packaged dishes, I only need 10 simple dishes for each meal. minutes." In addition to convenience, it also considers the less burden on the body and its nutritional value. Our topic starts with three meals a day, because we believe that the "mouth" may be the shortest distance when it comes to sustainability. Can dietary changes save the fate of the planet and humanity? Under the circumstances of climate change and global warming, droughts and heavy rains have almost become the normal state of the world, and human food production has encountered great problems; however, the production of food has actually caused great problems. The problem. Guo Huaren, an honorary professor of the Department of Agronomy at National Taiwan University, pointed out that greenhouse gas emissions from the global agricultural sector account for about 25% of total human emissions; and the modern food and agricultural system is highly dependent on fossil fuels, including the manufacture of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, the use of large-scale agricultural machinery, and the international trade of grain Long-distance transportation, etc., as well as carbon dioxide released after soil plowing, nitrogen fertilization into nitrous oxide, and methane release from cattle, etc., it can be said that agriculture is one of the main sources of greenhouse gas release, and the climate change caused by it is in turn It also seriously affected agriculture. Tang Feng said that when we often talk about carbon neutrality (the positive and negative offsetting of carbon dioxide emissions through carbon reduction means), it seems that we are talking about carbon dioxide, and the energy sector will bear relatively large expectations and attention. But in fact, the concept of net zero emissions cannot only talk about carbon neutrality, but must include all greenhouse gases, including methane and so on. In terms of life practice, maybe we feel that our diet is very healthy, but in fact it is shipped from Northern Europe, which may not be good for the earth; or we eat locally, but it is not in line with the concept of sustainable food, which is also good for the earth. It may not be good either. Therefore, she believes that when talking about sustainable eating, we must look at it in terms of the "full life cycle". In addition to considering food miles, we must also understand the impact on greenhouse gases such as methane. Included considerations. Creating the taste in emotion and memory is the key to creating the butterfly effect When it comes to Taiwan's food self-sufficiency rate is less than 40%, and the organic farming area and vegetarian population are limited, how to increase the population of sustainable diet? Tang Feng believes that what most people care about in their diet is not necessarily the amount of meat or vegetables, but because of the taste they remember when they were young (the taste bud memory of eating meat when they were young). Eating habits are often due to emotional connections. If you don't touch the taste of these home-cooked dishes, it will take at least one generation before it is possible to reverse the eating habits of more people. To ensure that everyone does not lose on the "finish line of environment and health", the best way is to make it easier for the public to buy sustainable ingredients for cooking. She believes that plant-based meat has great market potential. If plant-based meat dishes taste as home-cooked as they remember, then there is an opportunity for 80% of Taiwan’s meat-eating population to try a plant-based diet; then only 13% of Taiwan’s currently The plant-eating population can grow substantially with the help of this butterfly effect. Implement localization first to reduce food miles and carbon emissions Talking about the promotion of sustainable diet, Tang Feng further stated that the concept of "local production and local sales" must be advanced in order to truly implement the production and sales cycle of food from the source and reduce the carbon emission of food miles. Real estate and local sales, that is, goal 12 of the United Nations SDGs sustainable development goals "to ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns." Producers should be responsible to consumers and fulfill their responsibilities to explain the ingredients and production process; while consumers should try not to overconsume and give priority to local ingredients, etc. These can be said to be the responsibilities of consumers to producers. "Through diet, we have enough power to change the future of the earth; and planning our diet carefully is to store health for our earth instead of excessive consumption. We have to reflect on where food comes from and understand the impact of diet on the earth influence." - Tang Feng With such reflections on diet and the environment, it is also the essence of the promotion of the Sustainable Diet and Life Festival. Let us be the light that changes the future At the same time as the 2021 Sustainable Eating Life Festival was launched, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) was also held from October 31 to November 12, 2021. As citizens of the earth, we cannot stay out of it. "There is a gap in everything, including the ozone layer, but the gap is also the entrance of light. It is because of the global issue of climate change that we can gather the wisdom and wisdom of the world to solve it together. Let us become that light together!" Tang Feng firmly And confidently said, "Through diet, we have enough power to change the future of the earth!"
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