Avoiding meat and dairy products is one of the biggest ways to reduce your environmental impact, according to recent scientific studies.
All figures for each food in the calculator are global averages. If you cannot view the food calculator,Food production is responsible for a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions, contributing to global warming, according to aHowever, the researchers found that the environmental impact of different foods varies hugely.
The findings echo recommendations on how individuals can lessen climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . Cutting meat and dairy products from your diet could reduce an individual's carbon footprint from food by two-thirds, according to the Oxford study, published in the journal Science.
"It reduces the amount of land required to produce your food by about 75% - that's a huge reduction, particularly if you scale that up globally," Poore explained. For example, beef cattle raised on deforested land is responsible for 12 times more greenhouse gas emissions than cows reared on natural pastures.
I'm OK. Everytime I have a bacon sandwich I go down the road and plant a tree. So my conscience is clear.
I'm chinese so I eat whatever I like and pollution is not my problem...
I really needed this!!
Bill Gates and friends will have us all eating bugs very soon as well as highly processed vegetarian crap. I'm sure it will be very tasty and nutritious, not.
My diet isn’t the problem.
Give it a rest. 🙄
How dare you lies?
If you eat Humans, Do you have a negative carbon footprint?
How CO2 harms you?
Carbon - all life needs it, all plants, all trees need it - you would have no Planet Earth and no life without it.
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