When dealing with carbon emissions alone, they are up to 120 times more carbon efficient than meat products. A recent 2021 study found that plant-based patties have a 77% smaller climate change burden than beef patties, with reduced land and water use, eutrophication, and acidification.

People who follow a plant-based diet account for 75 percent less in greenhouse gas emissions than those who eat more than 3.5 ounces of meat a day, and a vegan diet also results in significantly less harm to land, water and biodiversity, according to new research from the University of Oxford.

Going vegan, therefore, reduces your dietary greenhouse gas emissions hugley. Dietary GHG emissions in meat-eaters are approximately twice as high as those in vegans. Red meat (such as beef, lamb and pork) production normally generates 23% of agriculture-related greenhouse gases.

Eating plants—instead of eating animals who eat plants—cuts out the enormous environmental burden that goes along with animal agriculture. Raising animals for food “introduces a major extra step of waste relative to the efficiency of us just eating the plant foods directly,” says David L.