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What's the best lifestyle choice to combat climate change? (See Results)

Eat Your Way to a Cleaner Environment


There are many important ways that our daily choices can help reduce our impact on the environment. From reducing our demand on electricity; purchasing renewable energy; carbon offsetting and using 'green' transport...

But few realise that the single most effective lifestyle choice we can make to help the environment is simply to reduce one's meat intake.

AppleIn 2006, a United Nations report revealed that the livestock industry is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than all trucks, trains, plains and automobiles combined!1

And greenhouse gas emissions are just the beginning. Switching to a plant based diet can also save roughly 5million litres per year!2

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References

  1. H. Steinfeld, P. Gerber, T. Wassenaar, V. Castel, M. Rosales, and C. de Haan, “Livestock’s Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options,” Livestock, Environment and Development (2006).
  2. Robbins, John, “Diet for a New America”, Walpole, N.H., Stillpoint, 1987, p.367.
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