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85% of parents would change their family diet to help protect the planet
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New survey results released by WWF-UK have revealed that 85% of parents of primary school age children are willing to change their family diet to help protect the environment. Unfortunately, only 13% of parents are currently taking steps to improve their impact, with a lack of information on the subject holding many of them back.
Food is a key environmental issue. What we eat and the ways in which we are growing, producing and processing food has a massive impact on our planet, contributing substantially to climate change and biodiversity loss. WWF-UK carried out a nationwide survey to find out what can be done to help create change.
The good news is that our survey results show that 91% of parents and 92% of children agree that it is important that the food we eat and the way it is grown should not damage the environment. Even better, 52% of parents state that if they had greater knowledge of how to eat sustainably, they would happily take steps to do so.
Of those surveyed, 77% of children say that school is the biggest source of learning about food, and 39% of parents say they learn from their family - so what kids learn at school could make a real difference to the whole family's diet. Acting on this news, WWF-UK is launching the Plant2Plate campaign to help support schools, parents and children to consume and produce food in a sustainable way.
In a calendar of events throughout 2016, the Plant2Plate campaign will provide free school resources based on WWF's Livewell principles - a set of easy-to-follow guidelines that will encourage better food choices - from eating more vegetables and plant-based food, consuming meat in moderation, and wasting less food, all of which could help make a real difference to help protect the future of the planet.
The survey results also showed that although 53% of children had tried growing vegetables at home, only 25% had grown vegetables at school. Plant2Plate would like to encourage all schools to try growing, whether on the windowsill or a small area outside. Through the project, green-fingered children can get involved with schemes to grow fruit and vegetables at school, using WWF's free resources such as the 'Growing food at school: beginner's guide' and the 'Growing guide calendar'.
Plant2Plate has also launched a recipe competition, in partnership with Alpro, makers of plant-based food and drink, calling on budding young chefs to enter a tasty, original recipe, which includes fruit or vegetables they have grown at school. The top 50 winning recipes will be published in a recipe book and the overall winner will receive £1000 to spend on gardening or cooking equipment for their school.
Schools wanting to get involved can enter the Plant2Plate recipe competition by sending their recipe by email to greenambassadors@wwf.org.uk or by post to Green Ambassadors Recipe Competition, WWF-UK, The Living Planet Centre, Rufford House, Brewery Road, Woking, Surrey, GU21 4LL. Closing date for entries is 5pm on Monday 6th June 2016.
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