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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Damian Carrington Environment editor

Vegan diet massively cuts environmental damage, study shows

Organic vegetable box
Researchers said people in rich nations needed to radically reduce their meat and dairy consumption for global food production to be sustainable. Photograph: Nathaniel Noir/Alamy

Eating a vegan diet massively reduces the damage to the environment caused by food production, the most comprehensive analysis to date has concluded.

The research showed that vegan diets resulted in 75% less climate-heating emissions, water pollution and land use than diets in which more than 100g of meat a day was eaten. Vegan diets also cut the destruction of wildlife by 66% and water use by 54%, the study found.

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