From now on, every Thursday, students at the Polytechnique Montréal University of Technology in Canada can see the environmental pollution information associated with the food when choosing what to eat at the canteen. The dishes are ranked from A to F, equivalent to the amount of CO2 that the processes that make them emit into the environment.

Labeling food items is an experiment in a project conducted at a university canteen in Canada.

The label is based on the calculation of the number of greenhouse gases emitted from the stage of cultivation and husbandry until the food is transported, processed, and discharged into the environment.

From now on, every Thursday, students at the Polytechnique Montréal University of Technology in Canada can see environmental pollution information associated with food when choosing what to eat at the canteen. The dishes are ranked from A to F, equivalent to the amount of CO2 that the processes that make them emit into the environment.

Mr. Patrick Cigana, Office of Sustainability, Université Polytechnique Montréal, said: "The chef sends the recipes of the dishes to the research center for analysis. For example, in this dish, there are 125 grams of chicken, and 50 grams of chicken. grams of potatoes, 60 grams of broccoli… Each of these ingredients will be calculated as to how many kg of CO2 emissions. Like today, we have vegetarian focaccia labeled D+, and vegetarian Parmentier labeled with D+. labeled A*, while the meat Parmentier is labeled B".

It may not be well known that the food chain, including production, packaging, and distribution, is a major global source of greenhouse gas emissions.

“We often think of putting pressure on oil companies, having to control fossil fuels, but we consumers also think about it,” said Carole-Anna Lapierre, a food chain and agriculture analyst. has great power in choosing food that is good for the environment".

For now, projects like the one at the Polytechnique Montréal are unique to Canada, but similar ideas have been applied to several restaurants in the UK and a university in France since 2019.

Via: vtv.vn