Feeding Seven Billion

After reading my previous post , you may want to know more about what you can do to lessen the impact of animal agriculture on the environment. Here are a couple of options that I have come up with: Eat less meat, or different types of meat The first lab-grown beef burger:  Source As I mentioned  previously , switching from beef to beans significantly cuts down your carbon footprint; even switching from beef to chicken has a positive impact. There are also plenty of meat substitutes, which are worth experimenting with, such as  Quorn TM . Recently there have been developments in sustainable cultured meats, my friend Serena recently wrote a great  post  on it and I hope to explore this topic in future blog posts. Find ways to make change outside of your diet The Paris Agreement:  Source Raising awareness of the impacts meat production has on the environment is really important, you could do this through discussing it with your ...

Two summers ago, I was eating a burger when a thought popped into my head: where had this meat come from? Never before had I properly thought about this or what impact my food choice could have on the environment. What I found surprised me, and is the main reason I decided to create this blog. Source After reading my previous post  and if you watched Cowspiracy  or The Atlantic video , you have seen how agriculture, particularly livestock agriculture, can negatively impact the environment. Here is an infographic I made to summarise the main points: Sources:  climate change ,  biodiversity ,  land use ,  waste ,  water use . So, we know that the livestock farming necessary for us to eat meat (especially beef) isn’t doing great things for the environment. Quite how dramatic the impact is surprised me, and the fact that I hadn’t heard about it before was even more shocking. Al Gore had told me to take shorter showers, change my light ...