An Environmental Studies Education Minus the Food: What Do Students Studying Environmental Studies Know About The U.S. Dietary Guidelines?

December 25, 2015

Natalie Petrulla has a new blog on what her colleagues at New York University know about the decision not to include recommendations on sustainability in the new U.S. Dietary Guidelines. Here’s a snippet from the blog (which can be read in its entirety here):

As discussed in a previous blog post, The U.S. dietary guidelines were recently released without including recommendations on sustainability and more sustainable ways of eating (i.e., less meat, more plants). As an environmental studies major at New York University, I was curious to learn how informed my colleagues were about these guidelines. Since this seemed to be such a significant loss for the environmental community, I expected that many students would be aware of this decision. To find out, I surveyed 55 university students. I asked a series of questions which included…

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