Transitioning to plant-based diets (PBDs) has the potential to reduce diet-related land use by 76%, diet-related greenhouse gas emissions by 49%, eutrophication by 49%, and green and blue water use by 21% and 14%, respectively, whilst garnering substantial health co-benefits
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Plant-based foods have a significantly smaller footprint on the environment than animal-based foods. Even the least sustainable vegetables and cereals cause less environmental harm than the lowest impact meat and dairy products [9].
Have you yourself read or looked through publications on this question and formed your own opinion? If so, what is it that you think, and what is it based on?
as much as I can. it’s not my profession. I think I don’t have enough evidence that changing ones diet has any impact on the environment once easy or the other.
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/8/1614/html
this study relies on poore-nemecek 2018 for its data, which improperly combines LCA studies with disparate methodologies. it’s not good science.
Have you yourself read or looked through publications on this question and formed your own opinion? If so, what is it that you think, and what is it based on?
as much as I can. it’s not my profession. I think I don’t have enough evidence that changing ones diet has any impact on the environment once easy or the other.