Go vegan to combat climate change

If you truly want to combat climate change, cross off meat, eggs, and dairy foods from your shopping list.

Foods derived from animals, whether eaten by candlelight or not, require more resources and cause more greenhouse-gas emissions than plant-based foods do.

Each year, humans kill 60bn land animals for food — about 7m every hour. These animals produce massive waste, which releases powerful greenhouse gases into our atmosphere. The livestock sector is the single largest source of both methane and nitrous oxide, greenhouses gases 25 and 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide, respectively.