An organization for doctors and other healthcare professionals, for a sustainable, plant-based food transition.
Caring Congres
1000 Actions Review
“Stand up and speak out for a sustainable food system for healthy animals, healthy people and a healthy earth”. Read the review of our great conference here.
Save the Date
The next Caring Congress will be on Saturday, November 8, 2025. More info will follow soon!
Read our magazine of the 2024 congress here.
Caring Doctors Newsletter (Dutch)
Lees hier de laatste nieuwsbrief van 2024 online. Boordevol feestelijk nieuws en een vooruitblik op een planeetaardig 2025.
We are a collective of doctors and other healthcare professionals that will bring about a transition
away from our current destructive animal food system.
For people, animals and nature.
Our current animal food system and overconsumption are increasingly creating welfare diseases such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, accelerated joint complaints and unfortunately also cancer.
Because we put more than half of our food production into a pig, chicken or cow, this creates food shortages in other parts of the world. One billion people have no daily food security, while we already produce enough plant-based food for ten billion people.
Furthermore, worldwide intensive livestock farming contributes to deforestation, loss of biodiversity, water shortages, soil pollution from pesticides and artificial fertilizers, air pollution from particulate matter, water pollution from manure, artificial fertilizers and pesticides, eutrophication (fertilization) of rivers and oceans, resistance to antibiotics and anti-fungal agents. and there is a much greater risk of new zoonotic pandemics.
In a mainly plant-based food system there is less health damage from diseases of affluence, less environmental damage and more food security for ten billion people.
A broad medical collective
General practitioners, medical researchers, medical specialists and other healthcare professionals.
Medical students, junior doctors, general practitioners, nurses, physiotherapists, medical researchers and medical specialists.
We are going to realize a plant-based transition of our food system in several ways.
Information in schools, nutrition and climate as part of the medical curriculum, end of advertising unhealthy food, true pricing, transition institutional kitchens, etc.
2500 Registrations
More than 1300 general practitioners and medical specialists and other healthcare professionals have already registered.
Everyone is welcome. We are looking for active members to help our organization grow.
Trouw:
From beef and meatloaf to fruit and vegetables, that is the mission of 'caring doctor' Patrick Deckers
Caring Doctors wants to put an end to the sausages and the meatball in healthcare. It's time for really healthy food. In the garden of an organic farm they give an inspiration dinner.
We have a database of 500 research articles about planetary and human health in relation to food. Here you will find a small selection.