{"id":345192,"date":"2025-06-27T05:50:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/the-vegan-shift-eurozine\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T05:50:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:50:26","slug":"the-vegan-shift-eurozine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/the-vegan-shift-eurozine\/","title":{"rendered":"The vegan shift | Eurozine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"main-text\">\n<p><iframe title=\"Hands off my Schnitzel! I Standard Time talk show S2E21\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hg_Iqbvm3Dk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Convetional European diets often boast of meat-heavy signature dishes. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Austria and Germanyare still at the top in per capita meat consumption, yet they lead when it comes to a meatless diet. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vegconomist.com\/studies-and-numbers\/diet-shift-austria-veganism-surges-meat-consumption-declines\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> total of 15%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of their combined populations are vegetarian, vegan, or pescetarian, and 40% of Germans claim to be flexitarians. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some do so for<a href=\"https:\/\/foodinstitute.com\/focus\/gen-z-vegans-and-the-future\/\"> health benefit<\/a>, and some for ecological or ethical reasons.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Factory farming is a major factor driving climate change, wherein <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hwoL6hWd4l0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cattle are biggest emission contributors<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Cows kept on industrial feed produce great amounts of<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unep.org\/news-and-stories\/video\/whats-deal-methane\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">methane, which is a potent greenhouse gas<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and responsible for 25% percent of global warming. The necessary pasture space also drives deforestation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/agricultural-and-biological-sciences\/livestock-production\">30% of the Earth\u2019s terrestrial areas<\/a> are occupied by cattle farming only \u2013 this includes feed production as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Food production is responsible for \u00bc of all of humanity\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions, using 70% of all water resources and 40% of all land resources worldwide.<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So if the floods start coming, we\u2019ll have to ask the cows if we can squeeze in with them.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Meat and culture wars<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eating meat has been turned into a culture war topic, with some online perosnalities taking it to the extreme and garnering millions of views by eating raw liver and testicles on camera. True, meat has always been a symbol of wealth and abundance, and these cultural markers don\u2019t wash off so easily. In reality, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">plant-based dishes have formed the bulk of all human cuisines for most of our existence on this planet. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is it possible to encourage new consumption habits by going back to some of our roots and appealing to existing cultural sensibilities? Today\u2019s guests show the roadmap.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Guests<\/h2>\n<p><b>Felix Hnat<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an economist and the President of the Vegan Society Austria and of the European Vegetarian Union. His focus is sustainable agriculture. That includes agriculture that is sustainable for farmers, companies, and consumers alike.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Zs\u00f3fia Per\u00e9nyi <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is the project coordinator of the Association of Conscious Consumers Hungary. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She is responsible for ACC\u2019s community-supported agriculture program. The is the coordinator of the Hungarian CSA network and the educational officer of the International CSA network, URGENCI.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Alessio Giussani<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is editor-in-chief of the Green European Journal. He is a journalist and editor based in Brussels, Belgium. As a freelance journalist, he has covered Greece for various Italian and international publications, and he was a favorite colleague of ours as a contributing editor of Eurozine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We thank the <a href=\"https:\/\/tk.hun-ren.hu\/en\">HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences<\/a> for hosting us!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Creative team<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">R\u00e9ka Kinga Papp anchor<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daniela Univazo writer-editor<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Merve Akyel\u00a0 art director, Eurozine<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Szilvia Pint\u00e9r producer<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Julia Sobota captions and translations<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zs\u00f3fia Gabriella Papp digital producer<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Management<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Priyanka Hutschenreiter project manager<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Judit Csik\u00f3s\u00a0 head of finance<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maximilian Lehner managing director<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Csilla Nagyn\u00e9 Kardos office administration<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Video Crew<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gergely \u00c1ron P\u00e1pai DoP<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bence Bodoky camera<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Istv\u00e1n Nagy sound<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Postproduction<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">N\u00f3ra Ruszkai video editor<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Istv\u00e1n Nagy lead video editor<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mil\u00e1n Golovics dialogue editor<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">D\u00e1niel Nagy dialogue editor<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Art<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Victor Maria Lima animation<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crypt-of-Insomnia theme music<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disclosure<\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"main-text\" class=\"md-h5 copy lh5 serif color-black-80\">\n<div id=\"main-text\" class=\"md-h5 copy lh5 serif color-black-80\">\n<p>This talk show is a <a href=\"https:\/\/displayeurope.eu\/\">Display Europe<\/a> production: a ground-breaking media platform anchored in public values.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/displayeurope.eu\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31201 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/displaylogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"205\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This programme is co-funded by the European Commission and the European Cultural Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, the views and opinions expressed here are those of the authors and speakers only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). 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