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i think there are still doesn't the plot look to choose from. so what made this rise so i 2nd some uncooked rice and hot water and then blending it with a couple of dates and a bit of salt. the problem for the planet is that rice production water rice is growing in flooded field where bacteria also pump methane into the atmosphere these parties are one of the biggest methane producers in the world up to cattle. and that's how the. researchers from the university of oxford in 2018 use data from 38000 farms in more than 100 countries to work out the average carbon footprints of different food they found that a glass of rice milk has a 3rd of the emissions of a glass of council. rice milk is what the climate than plant looks like soil and because of the meeting generated by growing the rocks. of the lowest emissions of
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the fire. take a closer look about. to make almond milk i cannot say that night and again i did some date for flavor blend together with a bit of salt not much of a small carbon footprint because the trees are expanding into plant and sucking c o 2 out of the atmosphere. but almond milk has a massive water footprint 80 percent of the world's aman's come from california which suffered from terrible drought which led to getting worse at the plot of war . making this loss of almond milk used up about as much water as having a shower. and then there's the bees beekeepers truck their hives across vast distances crops in different seasons the combination of travel and pesticide. means
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tens of billions of bees die in a single season. making for evil require that extra stuff you have to boil the mixture up to drip. this helps increase the shelf life killing off white birds i don't even know. milk is one of the most environmentally friendly milk you can find it's responsible for the c o 2 than rice and use less water than almond milk it's been a staple in asian ducts for thousands of years is there an environmental downside as well yet but it depends on how and where the soil it was great in the woman swayed to the other the right person the bird the church groups or even now most of this it used to be lifestyle like dairy cows at about 6 percent of global soil output still ends up. couldn't be more simple. strain 100.
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signatures outscoring the plants didn't take much water to grow and their emissions are tight. now you might be wondering about the health impacts of all these plot basement and if you think you might change your diet significant maybe talk you don't have to pay for trusting anybody you'll be in that let's look at so it some people are scared so i hope because it contains chemical compounds that act like the hormone easterfield too much restriction can increase the risk of breast cancer but the science here is pretty inconclusive despite a plausible mechanism studies in humans have found that even more so it has little effect on breast cancer the question of the problem is whether there is nutritious . more protein in. any plant with the exception of which is actually really high in protein so when. the research said that the smallest environmental footprint they take little water to grow. rice milk isn't great. any measure well bill cosby think of water but compared to cow's milk the
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differences between these are pretty small so all of the above are better for the planet than there but if you look at the real. one top of the food produced worldwide will never be the shoveled out the movie that's already been in the fridge for all the you can eat buffet doesn't really stand a chance to be wiped clean food waste is a serious problem rich as well as the trees in thailand we found a chef who was experimenting with interesting ideas on how to avoid food waste. most people only see a carpet of trash here. in thailand landfills nearly 2 thirds of the waste is organic mostly food waste. on the surface this all looks
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like plastic waste. you look inside as well as a soft gooey stuff down there it's off organic it's biomass. these still are quite ok they're well packed you could probably wash them and make something with them. but the market. eventually from germany is head chef and in bangkok hotel food and reducing food waste is important to him. he was the only i personally hate throwing food away not only because when i've cooked something i've put a lot of care and attention into it but also because it just seems utterly idiotic to throw something away that's clearly edible. i think and it's always bothered me . and it drives me nuts. can normally be found in the hotel with over a 1000 rooms it's one of the biggest in thailand he's planted
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a vegetable garden on the roof of the hotel for his $200.00 staff. its yield is negligible compared to the hotel's needs but the project has raised his staff's awareness of the life of food and. the way we carelessly throw things away as a result of our seeing food merely as a product. we're not aware of how difficult it is to actually plant something and how long the path is from the seed in the soil to the edible produce booth says hotels waste food in part because the chefs have to work at a fast pace. so he set up a central kitchen in his hotel where many of the leftovers can be put to good use. he is the man we collect all the leftovers from preparation the on used and the vegetables or meat. at the various carvery is in the hotel and there are always the
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bones left over we collect them to make stock with normally you wouldn't bother if you only used one onion but when you sliced hundreds of onions there's enough for a stock. but. this hotel boasts 6 different specialty restaurants. there's also a buffet area with a variety of different stations for preparing various dishes but with a bit of supervision and planning he's able to keep waste to a minimum or a little used to get the boiled eggs left over from breakfast all land in their path of it's a midday favorite people really like eating it and we don't have to boil the eggs in it and i doubt the vendée guys the problem is that breakfast eggs are cooked in the western kitchen but this is chinese cuisine it's. ideas like this have helped to her and his team cut the hotel's food waste in half over just 2 years it wasn't
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easy there was a learning curve and a lot of work flows had to be changed. once a month to her and his team take stock. they take a look at what food has gone and use that day and how it could be transformed into cool make cuisine. food that is still good to eat that the hotel can't use is donated to an injury of its staff collect the leftovers each day and distribute them to people in need across the city. only perishables containing things like fish or cream end up in the bin though even then not told they've been weighed and registered. just have to have evidence of this helps us to better understand what we're throwing away and how much we always compile our monthly report. then we can see exactly how much it is and maybe manage to reduce it a little data collection can be
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a good way to discover new solutions to old problems like the problem of food waste . the german agency for international cooperation g i said is funding a study to examine the waste produced by 400 representative households across thailand this kind of information hasn't been collected before in part because the costs were garbage disposal here are livid at a flat rate and not according to volume or weight you're going to visit and we want to know how much garbage gets sorted in separated where it goes to and what happens to it. it's hoped that this data will help discover ways to reduce food waste food that ends up in landfills isn't just wasteful it's also terrible for the climate when organic matter rots it releases me thing gas a powerful greenhouse gas that's estimated to be $25.00 times more potent than c o 2. so organic waste is
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a real climate killer especially in developing economies which rarely have modern recycling or composting technology for done this illusion is clear. believe in off on we often talk about what to do with all the waste and there are important debates but we should really be talking about how we can prevent these trash piles from building up in the 1st place. daniel boone wants to lead by example he knows that every step forward will make a difference. food is our fuel and that means we will do everything humanly possible to make sure plenty of it is available but going forward if each one of us chooses to eat food which is sustainable environmentally friendly and not to forget nutritious we helping the planet create i'll leave you with our part and see you again next week from our entire team in india and germany good buy. it's.
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