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At a cooking workshop in Richmond, California, participants learned to make mushroom tacos, cauliflower ceviche and other vegetarian dishes.
McClellan: “They were talking about them never thought it would be so good, they never thought about doing it…but they ended up trying it and enjoying it, they wanted to go home and make a home for their family.”
David McClellan is the vegetarian RX program of Urban Tilth, a Richmond-based nonprofit.
The program distributes free locally grown produce to most black and Latin American residents in the city, where fresh, healthy food is rarely purchased.
It offers cooking demonstrations and an online recipe to teach people how to prepare delicious plant-based meals.
Project manager Bailey Ward said locally grown food is more suitable for people's bodies and climate.
Trucks that use less food from afar can reduce climate carbon dioxide and air pollution that harms people's health, she said.
Ward: “Then things like plant farming produce a lot of methane and other pollutants, especially in the beef industry.”
Eating less meat will reduce this pollution.
Therefore, the program is helping more people enjoy healthy, delicious meals that are also suitable for the climate.
Report Credit: Sarah Kennedy/Chavobart Digital Media
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