We know that meat has a substantial impact on the planet, and that plant-based diets are more environmentally sustainable.
But exactly how much impact does the food we eat have on environmental outcomes and what difference would following a vegan diet make compared to consuming a high meat, or even low meat diet?
We then linked their dietary reports to a dataset containing information on the environmental impact of 57,000 foods. Crucially, the dataset factored in how and where a food is produced – carrots grown in a greenhouse in Spain will have a different impact from those grown in a field in the UK, for instance.
We found that even the least sustainable vegan diet was still more environmentally-friendly than the most sustainable meat eater's diet. In other words, accounting for region of origin and methods of food production does not obscure the differences in the environmental impacts between diet groups.Unsurprisingly, diets containing more animal-based foods had higher environmental impacts.
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