Eating lots of meat is bad for the environment – but we don't know enough about how consumption is changing

By Kerry Smith, PhD candidate in Biological Sciences, University of Reading
Emma Garnett, Researcher in the Health Behaviours Team, University of Oxford

Responsible for roughly a third of the UK’s diet-related carbon emissions, the consumption and production of meat is a substantial contributor to climate change. A report commissioned by the government last year reflects this, finding that people must eat 30% less meat by the end of the decade to reduce the environmental impact of food production.

Research indicates that meat consumption habits have changed. One…

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