Resumen de Vegan environmentalism: Mitigating climate change through diet change
Is eliminating meat and dairy from your diet the best way to reduce your impact on Earth? Research shows that, without meat and dairy consumption, global farmland use could be reduced by more than 75%, an area equivalent to the size of the United States, China, the European Union, and Australia combined, and still feed the world. In 2018, Joseph Poore, an Environmental Researcher at Oxford University, and Thomas Nemecek, the Deputy Leader of Life Cycle Assessment Research Group at Agroscope, conducted a study examining the global impacts of food productionِ Poore and Nemecekټs study also considered how a vegan diet can deliver transformative benefits for the environment. Modeled off a global transition to see the numbers to scale (if 7.7 billion people became vegan), this would require 3.1 billion hectares less land to produce our food. This is the same as the entirety of Africa that we would no longer need to farm. This article discusses these results.
