Research reveals that switching to a vegan diet can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 46% and land use by 33% while still meeting almost all essential nutrient needs
Research reveals that switching to a vegan diet can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 46% and land use by 33% while still meeting almost all essential nutrient needs
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A recent study found that adopting a vegan diet can reduce carbon emissions by nearly half and decrease land use by a third compared to a Mediterranean omnivorous diet, while still providing almost all essential nutrients. The research analysed calorie-matched diet menus and assessed environmental footprints across multiple food systems, showing dramatic benefits when moving toward more plant-based options.
“We compared diets with the same amount of calories and found that moving from a Mediterranean to a vegan diet generated 46% less CO2 while using 33% less land and 7% less water, and also lowered other pollutants linked to global warming,” said Dr Noelia Rodriguez-Martín, a postdoctoral researcher at the Instituto de la Grasa of the Spanish National Research Council
How bout taxing greedy corporations for polluting the planet instead of trying to guilt individuals into veganism🤔
We’ve had long enough to see that veganism isnt the damn answer.
I feel like that “almost” is doing a bit of heavy lifting
The next step won’t be to remove meat from people’s tables, it’s too culturally entrenched. The next step will likely be meat that is grown without an animal, reducing the infrastructure needed to grow an enite cow.
The problem is (from what I’ve seen) is many vegans have no fucking clue what a good diet requires. They think ‘just plants and nuts’ and forget essential vitamins (which can also be gotten from certain plants and nuts if they just knew about it). Then they try it on their children, who end up in the hospital with malnutrition, or their pets die because cats and dogs can’t survive on a vegan diet unless it is hyper-specialized and formulated.
Stop attacking individuals and start focusing on companies and the very wealthy who fly around on private jets. Let them eat bugs.
The discussion about lab-grown meat is interesting, but I think the real challenge isn’t just the technology—it’s changing decades of cultural habits and food traditions. Both individual choices and corporate accountability probably need to work together rather than being an either/or situation.
This is way off. Most vegan diets leave people undernourished such that adding even a very small amount of animal products may improve health visibly. And the comparison here is not to potential variations of animal farming, but strictly to modern factory farming of animals which is a very recent creation and unusually energy hungry.
These studies are produced and promoted not as a way of revealing potentially improved futures but as political advocacy of questionable choices.
While still almost meeting…
Sounds like we need to reduce the human cattle.
According to another research of the same type, cows drastically increase carbon emissions.
100% of the cows are on a 100% vegan diet, according to yet another scientific research.
The only way to square these contradictory scientific researches is to assume human vegans don’t fart. This demands a research.
I’d rather have lab grown meat that’s guaranteed to be free from growth hormones.
If I would switch to diet of cabbage and beans, there will be a lot of greenhouse gases
Note that this isn’t percent of total emissions but percent of diet related emissions.
Meanwhile, 363636374848 grosston container ship go brrrrrrrrrrrrrr hahahaha
Yea, no.
and lose more than 50% of the joy out of this hellscape world too!
go for the companies that account for more than 70% of the total emissions rather than individuals
Really don’t understand why they keep doing the research.
Plenty have shown in the past its better.
It’s not going to convince people to give up meat, people love their meat.
They need to be working on meat replacements that taste the same and are cheaper to get people to switch.
No crap. When you take into account how many trees have to be cut down to make space for both livestock and the food that they consume (vegans only get less than 15 percent of that, the rest goes towards the livestock((for the people that complain about all the soy production 🙄)) it makes sense that switching to vegan would be most beneficial.
Greenhouse gas emissions will not be solved by the consumer. The scale is unbelievable.
There needs to be policy change, and veganism isn’t it. To reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we need strong policy on sustainable power/energy, transportation, construction, and manufacturing.
Veganism can come in after addressing the biggest polluters, but good luck with that during the regression of the western world.
Research reveals that reducing world population by 50% will reduce greenhouse emissions by 50%. Who’s got the balls to do what it takes?
Yeah, cause your diet is the cause of global warming. Its not the industries belching out acrid black smoke or the data centers that use more electricity than a whole town. Ships dumping sulfuric acid in the channel. It’s all your fault…..