Eat less meat, especially beef
It’s amazing – but cutting down on meat is one of the single biggest things you can do to help the planet. Meat and dairy farming produce 15% of greenhouse gases – more than all transport put together.
Meat production is hugely inefficient because animals use their feed not just to create meat and milk but to move around and keep warm. This is why feed for livestock uses up 30% of the world’s arable land. If we ditched meat and dairy, we could return 75% of the Earth’s farmland back to wilderness, and draw down huge amounts of carbon from the atmosphere.
Beef and dairy are particularly bad because cows belch methane, which has over 20 times the greenhouse effect of CO2. And demand for meat means deforestation to provide land for grazing and growing feed.
Meat production is hugely inefficient because animals use their feed not just to create meat and milk but to move around and keep warm. This is why feed for livestock uses up 30% of the world’s arable land. If we ditched meat and dairy, we could return 75% of the Earth’s farmland back to wilderness, and draw down huge amounts of carbon from the atmosphere.
Beef and dairy are particularly bad because cows belch methane, which has over 20 times the greenhouse effect of CO2. And demand for meat means deforestation to provide land for grazing and growing feed.
