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Toward a Balanced Meal Future: The Role of Procurement

  Balanced Meal Procurement Large-scale nutrition habits may be influenced by public procurement, especially in establishments like training academies, schools, and hospitals. It is well known that eating a plant-based diet lowers the risk of non-communicable diseases. Human rights and cultural preferences for meat consumption must also be respected in procurement policies. This blog makes an argument that building procurement frameworks that support healthy meals is a more successful strategy than using exclusionary measures. This strategy combines the idea of personal choice with the health advantages of plant-based diets. Therefore, future procurement should investigate how procurement techniques may provide a balanced meal that balances human rights, nutrition, and sustainability.  It may be more fruitful to emphasize that procurement should lead to balanced meals .  A future research direction could therefore explore how procurement policies can ensure a balanced m...