Vegan Diet Cuts Environmental Damage

{Vegan Diet Cuts Environmental Damage Massively. I am not a Vegan nor a Vegetarian. We don’t expect everyone to follow this route, but please end fast food consumption, massively cut out red meat – it should be a treat. Iain. Earth and Leaf editorial}

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Vegan diet massively cuts environmental damage, study shows

Vegan Diet Cuts Environmental Damage Massively

Detailed analysis finds plant diets lead to 75% less climate-heating emissions, water pollution and land use than meat-rich ones

Eating a vegan diet massively reduces the damage to the environment caused by food production, the most comprehensive analysis to date has concluded.

The research showed that vegan diets resulted in 75% less climate-heating emissions, water pollution and land use than diets in which more than 100g of meat a day was eaten. Vegan diets also cut the destruction of wildlife by 66% and water use by 54%, the study found.

The heavy impact of meat and dairy on the planet is well known, and people in rich nations will have to slash their meat consumption in order to end the climate crisis. But previous studies have used model diets and average values for the impact of each food type.