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> If I made a personal decision to stop eating meat, would there be any significant impact at all on the overall environment realistically? I couldn't find the
by sedatk 6y ago
> If I made a personal decision to stop eating meat, would there be any significant impact at all on the overall environment realistically?
I couldn't find the source for this now, but I read somewhere that just skipping one meat-based meal a day would have more positive environmental impact than all your other individual efforts (recycling, solar, avoiding plastics etc) combined for the same day.
- sedatk 6y agoSince somebody downvoted, I assume for the missing source, here is an excerpt: "As well as revealing a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, these new findings demonstrated that switching just one red meat meal to plant-based a week could result in a 23 percent reduction (8 million hectares) in the UK’s domestic and international farmland use, and a 2 percent reduction in the UK’s water use (the same as taking 55 fewer showers per person per year)." https://theecologist.org/2019/jun/07/swapping-one-meal-day https://theecologist.org/2019/jun/07/swapping-one-meal-day I'll leave the rest to the reader to come up with the conclusion.