Reducingis the last day of Meat Free Week,the annual jamboree for meat reducers. I hope you’ve enjoyed it. So should you take your dietary activism to the next degree and cut meat out totally? Along with processed foods, animal foods are among those with the highest effect on climate and environment (including water expend, or air pollution and deforestation).
There’s been a rumour that the grains on which vegan and vegetarian diets are based possess a higher footprint than raising livestock,aka the “grain drain”. It’s a myth. While some crops possess a shocking eco profile (soy, for example, and grown in deforested monocultures),in 2005 one-third of the worlds cereal harvest went to feed livestock.
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Source: theguardian.com