In 2021, Alex Berke, a PhD student in the City Science group at the MIT Media Lab, made a pitch to the Lab community: align the Lab’s food expenditures with the Lab’s sustainability goals by not serving meat at catered events. The proposal polarized the community — why? To answer this question the proposal transformed into a research project, which Berke presented back to the Media Lab community in 2023. Berke and Kent Larson, the director of the City Science group, co-authored a paper published in the journal Appetite entitled “The negative impact of vegetarian and vegan labels: Results from randomized controlled experiments with US consumers.”
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