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

Monocropping, excessive applications of nitrogen fertilizer, addiction to insecticides, rainforest depletion, land degradation, topsoil runoff, declining water supplies, even global warming—all these problems would be considerably less severe if global consumers treated meat like they treat caviar,

According to Project Drawdown, four of the most effective strategies for mitigating global warming are reducing food waste, educating girls, providing family planning and reproductive healthcare, and collectively shifting to a plant-rich diet.

Agriculture isn’t just a driver of climate change but is also a victim of its shifting conditions as the climate grows less stable and increasingly unpredictable. As Jonathan Safran Foer wrote in his book We Are the Weather, “Changing how we eat will not be enough, on its own, to save the planet, but we cannot save the planet without changing how w

• Allowing tropical land currently used for livestock to revert to forest could mitigate more than half of all anthropogenic GHGs.

Not eating animal products for breakfast and lunch has a smaller CO2e footprint than the average full-time vegetarian diet.

changed diet, containing less beef, could decrease GHG emissions considerably