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[quote=Anonymous]DH and I have decided to try and eat less meat and more plants. There’s no way we could ever be vegetarian or vegan – we like meat too much! However, I think it’s hard to argue against the personal health benefits and broader ethical benefits of emissions reductions. For anyone else grappling with or interested in similar issues, this article from the BBC is interesting. Clearly it’s very anecdotal but the conclusion of following the eating pattern of a vegan, vegetarian and an omnivore were the emissions generated by one week’s eating were equivalent to 25 miles driving for the vegan, 42 miles for the vego, and 121 miles for the omnivore.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220429-the-climate-benefits-of-veganism-and-vegetarianism

My takeaways were:

- don’t focus on air miles as not big portion of emissions - I was a bit surprised
- don’t waste food and compost if possible (didn’t realise rotting food in cheap landfills was so bad, aside from the general wastage issue)
- the method of cooking can release more emissions than the food itself - quite surprised and will use the microwave a bit more. No way I’m eating cauliflower steamed rather than oven-roasted though.

Eating beef seems to have the worst impact and the US is now the second biggest consumer of beef from Brazil, which you could argue makes it the second bigger destroyer of Amazon rainforest (is that a stretch?). If only, we could reduce the size of those hamburger patties by a third or a half. They are generally oversized anyway. So I’ve resolved to switch out beef more than I already have. [/quote]

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