I was just wondering whether you took existing academic literature into account on this topic. I am aware of at least 2 related studies. One looked at the effect of vegan meal boxes and found no effect on meat consumption.Yet they only delivered one meal box with 3 meals. Another one provided just plant-based meat alternatives for a month and did find a significant drop in meat consumption at least a month after intervention end. Based on this evidence I would be more optimistic about providing free alternatives only because of it’s effectiveness identified in this one study and because this would be cheaper than providing full meals. But the evidence is not conclusive at all. But might bring additional valuable input
Lotte, massive thanks for finding the articles! The month-long intervention in particular seems very similar to this idea, so it’s very useful to know about :-)
Thank you for this food for thought!
I was just wondering whether you took existing academic literature into account on this topic. I am aware of at least 2 related studies. One looked at the effect of vegan meal boxes and found no effect on meat consumption.Yet they only delivered one meal box with 3 meals. Another one provided just plant-based meat alternatives for a month and did find a significant drop in meat consumption at least a month after intervention end. Based on this evidence I would be more optimistic about providing free alternatives only because of it’s effectiveness identified in this one study and because this would be cheaper than providing full meals. But the evidence is not conclusive at all. But might bring additional valuable input
Just plant-based meat alternatives
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002916522002581#:~:text=Repeated%20exposure%20to%20free%20meat,diet%20attributable%20to%20food%20production.
free vegan meal boxes
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950329325000461
Lotte, massive thanks for finding the articles! The month-long intervention in particular seems very similar to this idea, so it’s very useful to know about :-)