New York City’s menus are getting a makeover

For example, menus in New York City's public school system are getting a shake-up.

About 100 recipes will be available throughout the next year, the company said. The chefs will be educated to prepare meals with plant-based ingredients.

The flavours are new and really looking forward to the recipes. I think it's not that difficult to put together. The city has built on meatless Mondays and rolled out a plant-powered Friday program in all public schools last year as part of a wider effort to trim the fat off carbon emissions.

In the way that food is produced at the farm level, Red meat, in particular and dairy, is very carbon-intensive, said Kate MacKenzie, executive director of the New York City mayor's Office of Food Policy.

So if we are trying to reduce the emissions of our city, we can't ignore the contributions of food.