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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.

It turned out that what was eaten was far more important in terms of environmental impacts than where and how it was produced.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/20/vegan-diet-cuts-environmental-damage-climate-heating-emissions-study

#ClimateChange #veganism #vegan #water

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The researchers said the UK should introduce policies to help people reduce the amount of meat they eat in order to meet the nation’s climate targets. Ministers have repeatedly said they will not tell people what to consume, despite the precedent of, for example, taxes on high-sugar drinks.
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Imagine the public backlash if they did introduce a carbon tax on meat. Is there a single country that has such a tax?

here in the US we could try to actually use public land for something other than extraction and cattle raising... Oh wait we've already had armed rebellions from the ranchers. :(
did they consider processed foods as another metric in their study. My partner figured being vegan with a lot of processed foods was just as bad as not being vegan. Curious...