Eating and Drinking – Omstilling Nu

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Choose the right foodstuffs

There is a great difference in how much CO2 the different foodstuffs emit. When calculating the CO2 emissions you have to consider the energy from production and packaging to transportation and storage in the supermarket to the final preparation and consumption.

You can do quite a lot to improve the environment, your own health and budget by being conscious about the environmental impact when you organise your diet.

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Eat slowly

Take your time to enjoy the entire ritual of preparing and eating your food in ways that have developed through centuries. Become part of the international Slow Food movement, which is striving to promote a gastronomic culture, develop an education in tastes, preserve the biodiversity in agriculture and protect traditional foods against the risk of disappearing.

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The production of foods has a great impact on the total amount of greenhouse gases emitted globally. In Denmark around 16-18 % of the total emission of greenhouse gases derives from agriculture and food production. This figure does neither include the energy used to produce fertiliser and other equipment and tools, nor the energy spent on the transportation and storage of the produce. Moreover, the energy spent on the consumer transportation from the supermarket to the home and the energy spent on preparing the foods is not included.

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Avoid food waste

Between 30-50% of the global food production is wasted. According to Eurostat Denmark is currently the European country that has the highest amount of food waste per citizen – more than 800 kg per year. Other figures estimate that 303,000 tonnes of edible foods are discarded annually in the food sector, while the household waste amounts to 237,000 tonnes. This gives a total of 540,000 tonnes food waste per year, which according to the Danish Agriculture and Food Council corresponds to wasting 16 billion DKK (approximately 2.1 billion EUR) including VAT and other duties.

What can you do to reduce food waste?

Make sure that all the food you buy and prepare reaches your stomach and not the garbage bin. To stop food waste is neither complicated nor expensive. Here are three everyday situations where you can address food waste:

In the supermarket: Only buy the foods you are sure you are going to need
In the kitchen: Only prepare the amount of food you can eat
After a meal: If you ended up with too much food anyway you can store the food in the fridge or the freezer for another day.

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Eat vegetables instead of meat

It requires much more space, water and energy to feed on other animals than from plants. In the US it requires 140 liters of water to produce 1 kg of wheat, while 1 kg of beef requires 4,400 liters. Among the different types of meats there are, however, great differences in the ecological footprints, and from a climate friendly point of view, beef is the big trouble maker. The large amount of feed that the animals need requires a lot of energy, and they emit a lot of greenhouse gasses when digesting the feed. Only 20 g of beef emits more than 300 g CO2, which corresponds to the production of 30 carrots or 100 g chicken meat.

If you find a life without beef unbearable, try to reduce your meat consumption to a few days a week, and spend the money saved on locally produced and organic meat produce.

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Eat according to the season

As a rule of thumb there are several environmental reasons for eating locally produced foodstuffs and choosing seasonal vegetables. In Denmark the seasonal fruits and vegetables are the following:

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