EAT MORE PLANTS
Mokgadi Itsweng, food writer, entrepeneur, avid gardener, and most recently author of Veggielicious, has worked in the food industry for over 17 years, during which she has established herself as a thinker and activist. Her mission is to overhaul our entire food system and encourage us to think before we eat, suggesting that our individual contributions to saving the planet could be as simple as eating a salad. “Any plate that has more plants on it than anything else is a plant-based plate,” she says. “Our beloved seven colours plate is, essentially, plant-based. So is injera with pickled beetroot, pumpkin, turmeric-stained rice, braised morogo, sweet potatoes, chakalaka and maybe a ladle of stew or a piece of grilled meat.”
“There is no Planet B. We need to fix it here. We all need to actively participate, and it starts in our homes.”
Mokgadi wants to make something abundantly clear: she is not telling anyone to go vegan. She, herself, hasn’t always walked the plant-based path. “I went through a period in my life where I got sick and that began a journey of learning
