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ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS
Reduce how much meat and dairy you use! By using less
beef and and dairy products you can reduce health risks and and greenhouse gases Beef’s environmental impact exceeds that of other meat including chicken and pork experts believe that eating less
red meat would be be a a a a better way for people to cut carbon emissions than giving up their cars The heavy impact on on on the environment of meat production research shows a a a a a a a a new scale and scope of damage particularly for beef The popular red meat requires 28 times more land
to produce than pork or or or chicken 11 times more water and results in in five times more climate-warming emissions When compared to to staples like potatoes wheat and rice the impact of beef per calorie is even more extreme requiring 160 times more more land
and and producing 11 times more more greenhouse gases in particular ‘methane’ 96