Food
Nothing beats a hearty vegan chilli, bursting with flavour and filling ingredients. Even if you can't resist the odd steak or a bacon butty, there are so many delicious vegetarian and vegan options around now, it's never been easier to make meat a treat.
You’ll improve your health, wallet and culinary expertise, and your carbon footprint, of course.
Cows burp. A lot. And pigs eat. A lot.
A whopping 26% of global greenhouse gas emissions are from the food we eat, with animal products responsible for well over half of those emissions.1
Check out the chart on the right. For each step in the food chain, energy is lost. In other words, getting your energy directly from the source - plants - is far more efficient than getting it via animals.
And when you do feel like a meaty treat...from the money saved, you'll be able to buy higher welfare animal products - look out for grass fed meat which has a lower footprint than their intensively farmed counterparts.
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” - Michael Pollan
You needn't become a die-hard vegetarian to reap the benefits of this Do Action (although don’t let us stop you!).
Going meat-free for a few days isn't too tough and (depending on your current meat-o-meter) could really shift the dial on your impact. (Just check out the Meat-Free Mondays campaign if you don’t believe us!)
And of course, you can use the money you'll have saved to buy some deliciously wholesome free-range or organic meat when it's time to treat yourself.
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