This Small Change to Your Diet can Slash Your Carbon Footprint in Half. Here’s How

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Takeaways:

  • A new study shows that by switching beef for a more environmentally friendly alternative such as turkey, Americans could cut their diet’s carbon footprints by 48%.
  • Other dietary switches include shrimp with cod which would reduce emissions by 34% and replacing dairy milk with soy milk which would reduce emissions by 8%.
  • The most significant reduction the researchers saw in the water scarcity footprint came from replacing asparagus with peas, which can lead to a 48% decrease.

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