Doctors should tell patients to eat less meat to ‘save our planet,’ vegan med students say – Encoura

[rangerrebew]

Doctors should tell patients to eat less meat to ‘save our planet,’ vegan med students say – Encourage incremental shifts — such as ‘meatless Mondays or opting for oat milk’
By Admin
July 15, 2025


By Matt Lamb – Associate Editor

‘If clinicians aim to protect their patients, they need to consider protecting our planet’

Doctors should take advantage of appointments with patients to encourage them to eat less meat and more lentils, according to two medical students who are also vegans.

University of Rochester students Akhil Mahant and Jacob Zevitz at the University of Kansas medical schools made their argument recently at MedPage Today.

The “climate crisis” “rears its ugly head in clinical settings” and not just through “melting ice caps, rising sea levels, or massive forest fires,” the pair wrote on Sunday.

The students wrote “a major shift in global market demand toward plant-based rather than animal agriculture is necessary.” And this is where doctors come into the equation. “By integrating plant-based diets into patient counseling, doctors can play a central role in propelling this shift,” they argue.

Doctors have to start slow, according to Mahant (pictured, left) and Zevitz (pictured, right).

https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/07/15/doctors-should-tell-patients-to-eat-less-meat-to-save-our-planet-vegan-med-students-say-encourage-incremental-shifts-such-as-meatless-mondays-or-opting-for-oat-milk/

[rangerrebew]

The Catholic and Episcopal Churches have been saving the planet this way for centuries.  I'm told, though, the Catholic Church has called the eating meat on Friday sin, so I wonder what has happened to all the souls who have gone to hell on the meat rap?

[Smokin Joe]

Eff the planet. There. I said it.

My doctor's job is to save ME.