Before you carnivores roll your eyes, throw your steak sauce and tell me I’m low in iron just have a read.
No one is forcing you to give up meat, but at least have a read and then you can decide for yourself because knowledge is power.
Adopting a vegetarian diet could save millions of lives worldwide and dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study conducted by Oxford University’s Future of Food programme.
This study is thought to be the first to give precise figures on how vegetarian and vegan diets would affect global health and climate change.
The research published in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences journal, reveals that adopting plant-based diets could save millions of lives annually by 2050 and cut emissions by two thirds.
The study involved examining the environmental and health impacts of four different diets, each with varying meat, vegetable and sugar intakes, in order to ascertain the links between diet, health and the environment.
Currently our food system is major driver of climate change, animal agriculture is responsible for 51% of greenhouse gasses — shockingly that is more than all the exhaust from ALL modes of transportion combined. Researchers found that food-related emissions would be cut by 70% if people went vegan, and 63% of people went veggie.
The results also revealed that going vegan would save 8.1 million lives by 2050, and going veggie would save 7.3 million. Simply put, by cutting down on red meat consumption, the number of predicted deaths could be sliced in half.
Looks like it’s time to reconsider that fillet steak…
