The diet must be healthy, varied, balanced and moderate following the general guidelines of the so-called “Food Pyramid”, which involves less use of resources and less pollution (“Ecological footprint”). A vegetarian change would not only reduce overall mortality by 6-10%, but would be able to act on climate change with a 25% decrease in CO2. Limiting the consumption of ultra-processed industrial foods is also a healthy and environmentally friendly choice. The citizen, as a responsible consumer, must be aware of the fact that the agro-food production chain, in all its phases, from production to distribution to consumption, is responsible for important consequences also at a social level (from food sophistication to illegal hiring, from intensive monocultures to drought in large areas of the planet). Limiting the consumption of meat, for example, represents both an advantage in terms of health for humans beings and an advantage for the environment (about 15,000 liters of water are consumed to produce one kg of beef).

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