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your "foodprint"

We cater for all diets whilst on our programmes, and we will always ask you before arrival for any specific dietary requirements.

In the house we provide breakfast and evening meals during the week. If you are on the boats, they will normally always provide lunches, but most of our volunteers take snacks and fruit for their time at sea. If you are in the research centre on a weekday, there is a small village nearby to pick up cheap food. At the weekends we provide a Team Barbecue on Sunday evening as a way to say thank you for a good weeks work - this will leave you feeling incredibly full!!

WHAT YOU WILL BE EATING

We promote a vegetarian focussed diet on our programmes, serving meat only twice a week. We are well aware of the affect that eating meat has on the environment, and so we want to reduce the damage we cause as an organisation. We are not here to judge your lifestyle choices, we just want to limit our overall impact.
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The carbon footprint, or "Foodprint" as we like to call it, of a vegetarian diet is about half that of a meat-lover’s diet.

Livestock farming produces from 20% to 50% of all man-made greenhouse gas emissions.

The meat lovers amongst us have the highest carbon footprint at 3.3 tons of greenhouse gas emissions. A vegan diet has the lowest carbon footprint at just 1.5 tons CO2e (Carbon Dioxide Equivalent). You can reduce your "foodprint" by a quarter just by cutting down on red meats such as beef and lamb.
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It’s good for the animals!  

Most animals are raised in factory farms where they live in horrific conditions. The factory workers also suffer from poor wages and dangerous working practices. Factory farms are heavy polluters of the air and ground. 


It’s good for you too!  

Vegetarians live longer than meat-eaters. Vegetarians are slimmer than meat-eaters. Vegetarians have a lower risk of getting 
heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and cancer.

Green Fact: 70% of the deforestation of the Amazon is to provide land for cattle ranches.

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