An eco-friendly diet doesn’t have to mean a meat-free diet. Just eat less of the stuff
Meat production contributes to climate change, but going vegetarian or vegan isn’t your only response. Keep eating meat, but more mindfully
When it comes to global warming and our own carbon footprint, we may think – with a guilty conscience – of our most recent aeroplane flight, deliveries of our many online orders and all the plastic in our rubbish. But much of our environmental impact is caused by what we eat.
Among the detrimental effects of modern agriculture, she notes the release of environmentally harmful gases by livestock farming, soil degradation and biodiversity loss, along with the impact of food processing and transport.
“It must be clear to everyone that the health of mankind depends on the health of the Earth,” she says.
While this sounds admonitory, Klein is convinced legislative prohibitions lead nowhere and that an environmentally sustainable diet has nothing to do with self-denial.
