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Meat-based diets linked to significant carbon footprints
2014-07-01 10:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Meat-eaters diets have a much larger carbon footprint than vegan, vegetarian and pescatarian diets, a new study published in the journal Climatic Change has found. The study said that high meat diets have more than double the amount of the greenhouse gas emissions than the average vegan diet. It also mentioned the majority of Britons are high meat consumers and argued that reducing the amount of animal-based products in the diet represents an achievable way for an individual to reduce their...
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