Environmental Impacts of Plant-Based Diets: How Does Organic Food Consumption Contribute to Environmental Sustainability?

Camille Lacour (1) , Louise Seconda (2) , Benjamin Allès (2) , Serge Hercberg (3) , Brigitte Langevin (4) , Philippe Pointereau (5) , Denis Lairon (6, 7) , Julia Baudry (2) , Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot (2)

1 AGROCAMPUS OUEST
2 CRESS (U1153 / UMR_A_1125 / UMR_S_1153) - Centre de Recherche Épidémiologie et Statistique Sorbonne Paris Cité
3 UP13 - Université Paris 13
4 Solagro, Toulouse, France
5 Initiatives and Innovations for Energy, Agriculture and Environment, Toulouse, France
6 C2VN - Centre recherche en CardioVasculaire et Nutrition = Center for CardioVascular and Nutrition research
7 NORT - Nutrition, obésité et risque thrombotique

Background: Studies investigating diet-related environmental impacts have rarely considered the production method of the foods consumed. The objective of the present study, based on the NutriNet-Santé cohort, was to investigate the relationship between a provegetarian score and diet-related environmental impacts. We also evaluated potential effect modifications on the association between a provegetarian score and the environmental impacts of organic food consumption.

Keywords: provegetarian dietary pattern; organic food consumption; eco-friendly farming; diet-related environmental impact; sustainability

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Food and Nutrition

Camille Lacour, Louise Seconda, Benjamin Allès, Serge Hercberg, Brigitte Langevin, et al.. Environmental Impacts of Plant-Based Diets: How Does Organic Food Consumption Contribute to Environmental Sustainability?. Frontiers in nutrition, 2018, 5, ⟨10.3389/fnut.2018.00008⟩. ⟨hal-01792511⟩