You Don’t Have to Be Vegan to Help Save the Planet
Looking for foods that nutritionists and climate scientists agree on? From cutting back on beef to eating more plants, here are tips for a diet that’s better for the body and the environment.
Meals are carried to customers at the Sqirl restaurant in Los Angeles.
Photographer: Kyle Grillot/BloombergDietician Dawn Blatner struggled for years with being a vegetarian, suffering the occasional craving for a hot dog at a baseball game or some turkey at Thanksgiving. “I always thought I was just a lazy vegetarian,” she says. “Then I saw the word ‘flexitarian.’”
That was in 2003; Blatner has described herself as a flexitarian ever since. “The idea of waking in the morning with the intention to eat more plants is what a flexitarian is about,” she says. But crucially, there’s “no cutting out food groups.”