This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing.
It turns out that a plant-based diet not only helps you to lose weight and be healthier but it also helps the environment.
Switching from a meat-based diet to a plant-based diet:
✦ Lowers carbon footprint from greenhouse gas emissions from livestock
✦ Conserves water. It takes 1,000 gallons of water to produce just one gallon of milk
✦ Slows deforestation. Animal agriculture consumes a third of arable land and is a major contributor to deforestation
✦ Reduces water pollution. Many outbreaks of E. coli infection such as in romaine lettuce have been associated with water contaminated with animal manure
According to the UN, meat products are hundreds of times more water intensive to produce than plant foods.
Stay tuned next time to find out how spending less money and saving more can help the environment.
