First, there’s our increasingly hot planet to think about. As Naoki Nitta wrote earlier this year, “Research shows that even a modest skew away from meat-based diets can shrink an individual’s carbon footprint as much as 75%.” The journal Science of the Total Environment estimates that “Replacing beef with beans in the US could free up 42% of US cropland and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 334 mmt [million metric tons], accomplishing 75% of the 2020 carbon reduction target.”
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First, there’s our increasingly hot planet to think about. As Naoki Nitta wrote earlier this year, “Research shows that even a modest skew away from meat-based diets can shrink an individual’s carbon footprint as much as 75%.” The journal Science of the Total Environment estimates that “Replacing beef with beans in the US could free up 42% of US cropland and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 334 mmt [million metric tons], accomplishing 75% of the 2020 carbon reduction target.”