There is a vast amount of scientific evidence to support shifting away from animal agriculture into a more sustainable and ethical system.
[“Shifting diets to reduce high levels of meat consumption in developed and transition countries is a key leverage point for tackling biodiversity loss and climate change (Gerber et al. 2013; Joyce et al. 2012; IPCC 2014; Tilman and Clark 2014), e.g. globally about 30 % of current biodiversity loss and 14.5 % of greenhouse gases are due to animal husbandry (Gerber et al. 2013; Westhoek et al. 2011).](https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/034015/pdf)
[“In conclusion, a 100% plant-based diet (e.g., vegan) has the least environmental impact. Therefore, this review further supports the wealth of existing evidence supporting a transition to a more sustainable food system and food consumption”.](https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/15/4110)
“[At the current trends of food consumption and environmental changes, food security and food sustainability are on a collision course. Changing course (to avoid the collision) will require extreme downward shifts in meat and dairy consumption by large segments of the world’s population. Other approaches such as food waste reduction and precision agriculture and/or other technological advances have to be simultaneously pursued; however, they are insufficient to make the global food system sustainable.](https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/nursing-and-health-professions/precision-agriculture)”
“Dieta[ry shift towards reduced meat consumption is an efficient strategy for countering biodiversity loss and climate change in regions (developed and transition countries) where consumption is already at a very high level or is rapidly expanding (such as China).](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/S10113-016-1057-5)”
“[Most strikingly, impacts of the lowest-impact animal products typically exceed those of vegetable substitutes, providing new evidence for the importance of dietary change. Cumulatively, our findings support an approach where producers monitor their own impacts, flexibly meet environmental targets by choosing from multiple practices, and communicate their impacts to consumers.](https://josephpoore.com/Science%20360%206392%20987%20-%20Accepted%20Manuscript.pdf)”
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There is a vast amount of scientific evidence to support shifting away from animal agriculture into a more sustainable and ethical system.
[“Shifting diets to reduce high levels of meat consumption in developed and transition countries is a key leverage point for tackling biodiversity loss and climate change (Gerber et al. 2013; Joyce et al. 2012; IPCC 2014; Tilman and Clark 2014), e.g. globally about 30 % of current biodiversity loss and 14.5 % of greenhouse gases are due to animal husbandry (Gerber et al. 2013; Westhoek et al. 2011).](https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/034015/pdf)
[“In conclusion, a 100% plant-based diet (e.g., vegan) has the least environmental impact. Therefore, this review further supports the wealth of existing evidence supporting a transition to a more sustainable food system and food consumption”.](https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/15/4110)
“[At the current trends of food consumption and environmental changes, food security and food sustainability are on a collision course. Changing course (to avoid the collision) will require extreme downward shifts in meat and dairy consumption by large segments of the world’s population. Other approaches such as food waste reduction and precision agriculture and/or other technological advances have to be simultaneously pursued; however, they are insufficient to make the global food system sustainable.](https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/nursing-and-health-professions/precision-agriculture)”
[We conclude that reduced ruminant meat and dairy consumption will be indispensable for reaching the 2 °C target with a high probability, unless unprecedented advances in technology take place.](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-014-1104-5?sa_campaign=email/event/articleAuthor/onlineFirst)
[If the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares.](https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets)
[Our global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss, with agriculture alone being the identified threat to 24,000 of the 28,000 (86%) species at risk of extinction. The global rate of species extinction today is higher than the average rate over the past 10 million years.” ](https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/our-global-food-system-primary-driver-biodiversity-loss)
“Dieta[ry shift towards reduced meat consumption is an efficient strategy for countering biodiversity loss and climate change in regions (developed and transition countries) where consumption is already at a very high level or is rapidly expanding (such as China).](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/S10113-016-1057-5)”
“[Most strikingly, impacts of the lowest-impact animal products typically exceed those of vegetable substitutes, providing new evidence for the importance of dietary change. Cumulatively, our findings support an approach where producers monitor their own impacts, flexibly meet environmental targets by choosing from multiple practices, and communicate their impacts to consumers.](https://josephpoore.com/Science%20360%206392%20987%20-%20Accepted%20Manuscript.pdf)”
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