The planet wants you to eat more offal – here’s how to increase consumption

Many people in the UK are not keen to eat offal, but there's an environmental movement that suggests eating the whole animal has benefits. Scout901/Shutterstock

Meat has a large environmental impact, but could consuming more of it be part of the answer?

Meat-eaters in western countries today typically focus on the muscle tissue of animals and often avoid consuming offal (internal organs like the heart, liver and kidney). But eating more offal could lower the number of animals that are killed for food and so the greenhouse gases produced by the meat industry.