Toward a Balanced Meal Future: The Role of Procurement

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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 meal future integrating both health benefits and individual choice.

Conclude by three important points:

1.    Balanced meals as the central goal

2.    Acknowledging health benefits of plant-based diets

3.    Respecting human rights and dietary choice

Any training academy cafeteria, university cafeteria can take procurement policy to making balance meals list for a week. For example

Meat-Free-Monday

Fish-Free-Wednesday

This will create a culture of maintaining green procurement and Policy Integration align SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being) and SDG 12.

Future Research:

Balanced Meals Through Public Procurement: A Future Research Agenda


 

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