Joyce Andrew W, Dixon Sarah, Comfort Jude, Hallett Jonathan
Department of Health Sciences, Monash University-Peninsula Campus.
Environ Health Insights. 2008 Sep 15;1:31-4. doi: 10.4137/ehi.s914.
This paper describes results of a survey comparing people's knowledge of health and environmental impacts of dietary choices. Dietary choice is one of the key ways in which individuals can reduce their environmental impact in relation to water use and greenhouse gas emissions but this may not be widely known amongst the public due to limited press coverage.
A street intercept survey was conducted asking open ended questions on how people can help the environment, maintain or improve health and basic demographics. The sample size was 107 with a refusal rate of 51%.
Only 3.2% of the sample made a link between dietary choice and environmental impact whereas 85.6% of the sample referred to dietary choice in relation to personal health. Transport options and keeping active were popular responses to both health and environmental categories.
It seems that very few people are aware that the livestock sector is the second largest contributor to equivalent greenhouse gas emissions and one of the largest users of fresh water. Reduction in red meat consumption could have both important positive health and environmental impacts.
本文描述了一项调查结果，该调查比较了人们对饮食选择对健康和环境影响的了解情况。饮食选择是个人在用水和温室气体排放方面减少对环境影响的关键方式之一，但由于媒体报道有限，这一点可能并未被公众广泛知晓。
进行了一项街头拦截调查，询问人们关于如何保护环境、维持或改善健康以及基本人口统计学特征的开放性问题。样本量为107人，拒绝率为51%。
只有3.2%的样本将饮食选择与环境影响联系起来，而85.6%的样本提到了饮食选择与个人健康的关系。交通选择和保持活力是对健康和环境类别都很受欢迎的回答。
似乎很少有人意识到畜牧业是等效温室气体排放的第二大贡献者，也是淡水的最大使用者之一。减少红肉消费可能对健康和环境都有重要的积极影响。
