Plant Based Meats Do More to Address Climate Change Than Green Buildings or Zero-Emission Cars

Malte said a move towards plant-based meats could also help alleviate food crises. “You are cutting out the ‘middleman’, whether it’s a cow, a pig or a chicken. It’s just mathematics: if instead of feeding all of these crops to animals, and then eating the animals, you just use the crops directly for human consumption, you need less crops overall a... See more

Scientists have concluded that avoiding meat and dairy products is the single biggest way to reduce your environmental impact on the planet and that large cuts in meat consumption in rich nations are essential to ending the climate crisis. The Project Drawdown group, which assesses climate solutions, places plant-based diets in the top three of alm... See more

Europe and North America will reach “peak meat” by 2025, at which point consumption of conventional meat starts to fall,

Meat and dairy production uses 83% of farmland and causes 60% of agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions, but provides only 18% of calories and 37% of protein.

Alternatives make up 2% of meat, egg and dairy products sold, but will rise to 11% in 2035 on current growth trends,