Hospitals will take meat off menus in bid to cut carbon - 26/1/09

On Tuesday, Dr David Pencheon, director of the NHS sustainable development unit and the NHS chief executive, David Nicholson, will publish the strategy - Saving Carbon, Improving Health - which will set targets to cut the organisation's carbon footprint, and proposals to meet them. Meat-free menus are to be promoted in hospitals as part of the strategy. Pencheon said the move would cut the relatively high carbon emissions from rearing animals and poultry, and improve health. "We should not expect to see meat on every menu," said Pencheon. "We'd like higher levels of fresh food, and probably higher levels of fresh fruit and veg, and more investment in a local economy." The Guardian 26/1/09