Eating more vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds, and less meat and dairy, can significantly lower your environmental impact.

Producing plant-based foods generally results in fewer greenhouse gas emissions and requires less energy, land, and water.

Today, around 60 per cent of the world’s agricultural land is used for livestock grazing and people in many countries are consuming more animal-sourced food than is healthy. Plant-rich diets can help reduce chronic illnesses, such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer.

It is not very efficient to feed plants to livestock when we could eat the plants directly ourselves.These animals also produce substantial amounts of methane in their digestive systems, which is a powerful greenhouse gas.

The carbon footprint of beef and lamb is roughly 3 TIMES HIGHER than that of pork, poultry or farmed fish per 100g of protein and 24 TIMES HIGHER than pulses such as beans and lentils.