Sixty seconds on . . . meat

I don’t touch the stuffWell good for you because research published in Nature Food1 says that eating meat and animal products is much worse for the environment than following a vegan diet.A searing indictment of carnivores?Quite. The researchers, from the Livestock, Environment, and People (Leap) project2 at the University of Oxford, found that a vegan diet has around a third of the environmental impact of a diet high in meat.Haven’t I herd this before?Past research has shown that plant based diets are better for the environment and tend to be healthier, the researchers said. They say their research differs because they took into account the variation in how different diets impact the environment based on how and where food is produced, and included this variation in their results.What’s their beef with meat?The Leap team found that vegans contribute a quarter of the greenhouse gas emissions of people who eat over…
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