Calorie by calorie, it takes more GHG to grow lettuce than the equivalent calories in bacon.
The USDA says the average American ate 71lbs of red meat a year or 3.2oz of in a day, the caloric equivalent to almost 6 heads of lettuce a day. Unless you know someone who eats this much lettuce each day, that in itself shows the absurdity of the claim.
According to a study on diets, vegan diets emitted around half the average greenhouse gasses than a meat eating diet.
Topic: FAQ – Environment
