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Emma is pursuing a master's degree in Rural Planning and Development remotely at the University of Guelph, and recently moved to Metro Vancouver from rural Ontario. Emma is passionate about, hiking, sustainability, and climate change planning. Emma spends most of her time in the kitchen honing her vegan cooking skills, and thrifting at local secondhand stores.

Re-think your cheese: The curious case of cashews and the value of fairtrade

Re-think your cheese: The curious case of cashews and the value of fairtrade

Mar 1, 2021

Cashews, while versatile and nutritious, can come with significant costs to human well-being. By informing ourselves of these costs and striving for solutions, including Fairtrade, we can start to address these issues.

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"Youngsters who learned by watching others also tended to continue manipulating new objects or trying new foods for about 145 minutes after they had closely

Copying others can help young orangutans build a broad diet | New Scientist

Orangutans spend more than eight years learning how to cope on their own, and now we have a clearer idea of how they work out which foods to incorporate into their diet

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“Dietary guidelines have enormous potential to shape healthier and more sustainable food systems, but they need to work in the real world. Our findings show

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And moving to vegan diets would do far better than even this! "The team modeled what would happen if the world actually switched to sustainable

What happens to the world's farms if everyone eats less beef?

Researchers ran the numbers on a worldwide sustainable-diet transition—and found a food system that looks nothing like today’s.

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