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Introducing More Plant-Based Proteins Into School Meals Could Propel Change

Introducing more meat alternatives into school meals could prompt this tipping point, Tim Lenton says. Public procurement and encouragement to create a market for plant-based products would help propel change on a large scale - Professor Lenton. But also we might start to trigger what academics call some social contagion, where people who might have had reservations about switching to plant-based meat substitutes may realise they're tasty.

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