- [Narrator] This week Macy's and Bloomingdale's bans
the sale of fur.
Canada turns 165,000 square miles of ocean into a sanctuary.
Suzy Amis Cameron has convinced Oprah
to do a 30 day plant-based challenge,
and Pizza Hut launches vegan nuggets and cheesecake.
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Retail giant Macy's announced that it will stop selling fur
by the end of 2020.
With more than 680 stores
and more than 190 outlets in the United States,
it's the biggest American retail chain
to announce a fur ban.
Once known for its high priced mink coats,
the company which also owns luxury department store
Bloomingdale's says it will shut down its fur vaults
and salons that have long offered fur storage and repairs.
Jeff Gennette, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
of Macy's INC said, "Over the past two years,
"we have been closely following consumer and brand trends,
"listening to our customers and researching
"alternatives to fur.
"We've listened to our colleagues,
"including direct feedback
"from our Go Green employee resource group,
"and we have met regularly on this topic
"with the Humane Society of the United States
"and other NGOs.
"Macy's private brands
"are already fur-free, so expanding this practice
"across all Macy's Incorporated
"is the next natural step."
The ban doesn't include materials considered
byproducts of other animal industries,
such as shearling, sheep skin, calf hair and cow hide.
But the move points to the end of an era
as major houses including Versace, Gucci, Prada and Chanel
have all banned fur from their lines.
Pizza Hut UK is expanding its vegan menu.
The fast food chain just introduced vegan chicken nuggets,
cheesecake, and a new pizza.
The nuggets are Quorn Southern Fried nuggets.
For dessert, Pizza Hut now has
the I Can't Believe it's Not Cheesecake,
a vegan cheesecake with biscuits and caramel.
The new pizza, the vegan All About Mushrooms Pizza
is the chain's 5th vegan pizza option.
It features mushrooms, garlic,
tomato sauce, and Violife cheese.
Pizza Hut UK first experimented with vegan pizza in 2017.
Positive feedback, and the public's growing interest
in meat-free food motivated the chain
to test another pizza in January 2019.
The Jack and Cheese, which features sweet corn,
red onion, peppers, barbecue jackfruit,
and dairy-free cheese was offered for one month
to celebrate Veganuary.
The chain said if it sold
10,000 vegan pizzas during the month
it would keep the item on the menu.
The vegan pizza was ordered 17,000 times,
and became a permanent menu item.
It now also offers barbecue jackfruit rolls
and cinnamon bites.
In the US,
Pizza Hut trialed its first ever
vegan meat topping this week.
A store in Phoenix, Arizona offered a pizza
topped with Incogmeato vegan sausage
made by Kellogg owned Morning Star Farms.
Coming up: Helsinki University bans beef.
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Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton
are eating more vegan food to stay healthy.
A vegetarian since the age of 12,
former No Doubt singer Stefani follows a mostly vegan diet.
Shelton, her partner and fellow coach
on The Voice is a long time meat eater.
According to Globe Magazine, Shelton is trying
to get healthier and lose weight, so Stefani
is encouraging him to eat fewer animal products.
A source reportedly told the publication
Gwen's told him the way to lose it
is to stay the hell away from meat and bad carbs.
Stefani and Shelton are not alone in ditching
animal products for their health.
Fellow musician Will.i.am and a coach on the UK's
version of The Voice went vegan in 2017.
According to the rapper, he was sleeping
for four hours a day and eating mostly processed foods
before changing his diet.
Helsinki University is banning beef
to lower its carbon footprint.
Beginning next February, all cafeterias owned
by the school's student union
will drop beef dishes from their lunch menus.
Beef will also be removed from cafe items
including sandwiches and wraps.
According Uni cafe's calculations,
removing beef will reduce its food-related
carbon footprint by 11%, The equivalent of 240,000 kilograms
of carbon dioxide annually.
The university serves around 11,000 meals a day, with beef
accounting for 15% of the meat served.
While beef will replaced by other animal proteins,
chicken and pork, the university will also introduce
more vegan and vegetarian options.
Ilva, the company that handles day-to-day
operations at Helsinki University's cafeterias
aims to increase sales of vegan and vegetarian
meals to more than 50% by the end of next year.
Meat-free meals currently represent 40% of sales.
Plant-based proteins will be placed at the start
of the cafeterias' self-service counters,
making them the first options students will see.
The cafeteria business operations director
Leena Pihlajamäki said, "Its proven that this is
"one of the most effective ways of doing it."
Several other universities have removed beef
from the menu for sustainability reasons,
including Goldsmiths, University of London,
University of Coimbra and Portugal,
and Cambridge University.
According to a 2018 study from the journal Science,
beef generates six times more greenhouse gasses
compared to plant-based proteins like peas.
A new British reality television show
will make people think twice about the food on their plates.
Meat the Family looks at the ethics
of eating meat by forcing families to choose
between eating their pets or becoming vegetarian.
The show is described as a social experiment.
It will recruit four meat-eating families
and give each a farm animal: a chicken, calf,
lamb or pig as a pet.
The families must care
for the animal as they would a dog or cat.
According to the show's description,
they treat the new arrival like a beloved pet,
taking it for walks and playing with it,
in a bid to understand its intellectual
and emotional capacity, and to see if living with it
makes it less palatable to eat.
The families will travel the globe
to learn about animal agriculture,
including how meat is processed.
They will also be educated about the impact
of eating meat on animal welfare,
the planet, and their health.
After three weeks the families
must make a decision: go vegetarian forever
and send the animal to a sanctuary,
or remain meat-eaters and kill their new best friend.
Television and media analyst Virginia Mouseler
spoke to the Daily Mail about the premise.
"It is not sex or drugs anymore.
"Meat is becoming the next taboo.
"The question they are asking
"is how you can cuddle your dog
"while you are putting another animal in the oven?"
Coming up: More than half of London parents
want processed meat banned from schools.
Canada is creating two marine sanctuaries
in the Arctic Ocean.
The conservation efforts called
Tuvaijuittuq and Tallurutiup Imanga could help
tackle climate change and protect ecosystems.
The ice in the Arctic keeps polar regions cool
and helps keep the global climate
at a safe temperature.
As the climate crisis worsens,
the Arctic is heating up twice as fast
as the rest of the planet.
This leads to the loss
of sea ice, which exacerbates climate change
and puts marine species at risk
- Youth my age definitely believe
that climate change is happening
and that's what we call it.
We usually get at least five blizzards a year in winter.
Last year we had one.
Permafrost melting, hotter summers,
those are huge changes that I've seen.
- [Narrator] According to National Geographic,
the new sanctuaries will cover 165,000 square miles
of ocean, protecting 14% of Canada's
marine and coastal areas.
It surpasses the country's goal of protecting 10%
of these areas by next year.
The larger sanctuary,
Tuvaijuittuq Marine Protected Area,
will prevent new human activity in the area
for up to five years, with the possibility
of an extension.
Exceptions can be made
for conservation research and activities
related to emergencies.
The second sanctuary,
Tallurutiup Imanga National Marine Conservation Area
is located in the south of Ellesmere Island.
It is a habitat for 75% of the world's narwhals
and 20% of Canada's belugas.
It's also home to the largest population of polar bears
in the Canadian Arctic, as well as walruses,
bowhead whales, and sea birds.
The majority of parents in London
want processed meats cured with nitrites
banned from primary schools.
A poll including more than a thousand Londoners
with children between five and 11 years old
found that 69% of parents want meat products,
including bacon and ham, removed from school menus.
Half of the participants
back a complete ban on nitrite-cured meat
for health reasons.
Nitrites and nitrates
are naturally occurring chemical compounds
that contain nitrogen and oxygen.
They are added to cured animal products
like salami, ham, bacon and some cheeses
to prevent bacterial growth.
Dr. Amanda Cross, a professor
of cancer epidemiology at Imperial College in London
says researchers have noted an increased risk
of cancer linked to nitrate and nitrites in meats.
In 2015, the World Heath Organization
classed processed meat as a group 1 carcinogen,
meaning it increases cancer risk in humans.
Cigarettes and asbestos are also in this category.
According to WHO, eating just 50 grams
of processed meat a day, the equivalent
of less than two slices of bacon, could raise
the risk of developing colorectal cancer by 18%.
The Global Burden of Disease Project has revealed
that nitrite-cured processed meat is to blame
for 34,000 cases of bowel cancer every year.
Coming up: Oprah tries a 30-day vegan challenge.
Vegan musician Billie Eilish spoke out
against the mink fur trade, urging her fans
to think twice about supporting the industry.
The 17-year-old singer/songwriter shared images
of a mink on her Instagram story.
Eilish wrote, "Just so you know, this is a mink.
"you (bleep) getting mink lashes
"and mink slippers disgust me.
"Where yo heart at?"
she said to her 40 plus million Instagram followers.
Mink fur is falling out of favor with the public,
but the industry still takes the lives
of millions of minks every year.
According to Copenhagen Fur, the world's largest
fur auction house, global fur production
has dropped by 1/3 in recent years,
with 54 million minks killed worldwide in 2016
compared to 72 million in 2015.
Eilish went vegan in 2014, noting that a lot
of reasons motivated the change, including dairy's
negative effect on the body and animal welfare.
- Animals bro, like I just don't understand the point.
Why would you eat an animal
when you could eat some chips? (laughs)
- London's Met police recently ordered
extra vegan meals to cater to detainees
from the Extinction Rebellion protests.
According to the Guardian, the Met made 1,828 arrests
and 164 charges have been laid so far.
Back in April when Extinction Rebellion held
mass protests across the capital, the Met ran
low on vegan options for those held in custody.
This time, according to Inspector Brain Smith
of Brixton police station, there are plenty
of plant-based options to go around.
A Met Police source told the Mail Online
"Record numbers of vegan meals are being used
"in our cells."
Extinction Rebellion believes the planet is facing
an unprecedented climate emergency.
Following an interview with vegan environmentalist
and MUSE school founder Suzy Amis Cameron,
Oprah has revealed she will be eating one plant-based meal
a day for the next month.
She said in a video on her Instagram story:
- In 'O' Magazine this month there is a wonderful
article interview that I did with a woman
named Suzy Cameron.
She's written a book called One Meal a Day.
One meal a day eating a plant-based diet.
So if you've been thinking about going vegetarian or vegan
this is a good way to lean into it
where you don't have to give up everything
you've been eating your whole life all at once.
- [Narrator] Together with her chef Raymond Weber
Oprah made a fig salad with pumpkin risotto
and wild field mushrooms.
She announced that Weber will be coming up with 30 different
plant-based recipes for her to share with her followers.
She also drew attention to her interview
with Amis Cameron, which was published in 'O' Magazine
and aired on the Oprah Winfrey Network earlier this month.
The pair talked about the vegan lifestyle
and how simple diet changes can help save the planet.
During the interview,
they spoke about Amis Cameron's book,
One Meal a Day, the simple plant-based program
to save you health, save your waistline,
and save the planet.
According to Amis Cameron,
who is married to director
and fellow environmentalist James Cameron,
ditching animal products for just one meal a day
and going plant-based can have a huge
positive environmental impact.
- Not a single other activity
in our lives comes anywhere close
to the impact of what we eat on the planet.
No matter how small a step toward plant-based
eating you take, you can have an immediate impact.
- [Narrator] She told Oprah: "It saves
"200 thousand gallons of water, and the carbon
"equivalent of driving from Las Angeles
"to New York, that's one person."
Oprah chimed in: "Think about if everyone just did that.
"So you're saying you're not even trying to convert
"the whole world, just one meal."
- What is so extraordinary
is that if you live in a space of reverence
for the rest of the world, for the people
for the plants, then that is given back to you.
You have this revered life, actually.
- I feel that.
- [Narrator] That's it for today.
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