The Impact Of Cutting Down On Red Meat

For the third annual #NoRedOctober, a month dedicated to not eating any red meats, there was a study done to see how much of an impact events like this actually had on reducing our carbon footprint. The study explained how just one fifth of Americans eating red meats are responsible for half of the countries food-based emissions. They discovered that if you cut out meat products from your diet entirely, you can eliminate more than 2,866 pounds of food-related CO2 annually. In conclusion, they found that most Americans can have a positive impact on their own health and the environments health if they worked on eating fewer animal products, or red meats. I think that events such as #NoRedOctober are a good start for people who are trying to reduce their red meat intake. If everyone participated in this event during October then our food-based emissions would decrease greatly and it would be a positive step in reducing our CO2 production and a positive step towards a healthier environment.

https://www.popsci.com/less-red-meat-dairy-vegan-carbon-emissions-impact/

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  1. AnonymousNovember 12, 2019 at 9:28 AM

    This article is very interesting because nobody realizes the negative effects that eating red meat has on the environment by releasing enormous amounts of CO2 into the air. Therefore, decreasing the amount of red meat the population eats can lower the amount of chemicals we are releasing into our environment and reduce our carbon footprint. The whole population needs to take part in trying to reduce the amount of CO2 that is released into the air to help create a healthier environment.

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