Since switching to a plant-based menu in January 2020, Jigsaw Day Nurseries in Chester has managed to dramatically reduce its environmental impact.
With global food production the leading driver of natural habitat loss around the world and responsible for roughly 25 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions and 70 per cent of freshwater extraction, owners Stuart and Claire Taylor felt they could make a real difference by changing children’s diet at their two nurseries.
A plant-based diet is one that solely or primarily consists of plant foods, and usually excludes processed and packaged foods. In the Taylors’ case, they decided to take meat, fish, dairy and all other animal-based products off their menus entirely.
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