Vegetarian food is better
for health and environment
National Service Scheme (NSS) Cell of Swami Vivekanand Subharti University and Department of Journalism and Mass Communication in collaboration with Vegan Outreach (International Non-Governmental Organization) organized a webinar on the topic “Food-Planet-Health”. It was organized with the objective of highlighting the complex relationship between food, our planet Earth and human health and also to motivate the youth towards serious issues like animal abuse, exploitation and emergence of zoonotic diseases.
On this occasion, the key speaker of the webinar Abhishek Dubey of Vegan Outreach, highlighted in detail the impact of food on the environment, human health and animals. He said that one can stay more healthy by getting all the nutrients one needs from plant-based food. Also, problems like climate change, extinction of species, deforestation, starvation etc. can also be reduced.
In the webinar, Program Coordinator of National Service Scheme of the University and Head of Journalism Department, Prof. Subhash Chandra Thaledi said that today there is a need that people should practice to adopt a plant-based lifestyle to protect our health and animals. He stressed that this will strengthen environmental protection and we will also be able to make the future better and safer.
In this program, volunteers of the National Service Scheme participated enthusiastically. The participants also got their doubts related to the topic resolved from the experts. Participant Prajwal Pandey asked questions on how to convert people in the world towards plant-based food and expressed his desire to work on this campaign himself. Through this webinar, the volunteers were motivated to eliminate the prevalent inhumane practices towards animals and birds. Along with this, they also got a deeper understanding of the use of hormones and genetic modification in food production.
On this occasion, program coordinator of this webinar Preeti Singh thanked all the students and Vegan Outreach Organization for organizing a webinar on such an important topic. Dr. Sanchit Pradhan from Dental College, Neha Pandey and Shivani Bhadauria from Nursing College, Ram Prakash Tiwari from Journalism Department. Prakash Tiwari, Swati Sharma from Home Science Department etc. participated.
