Your Questions About Food and Climate Change, Answered

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Beef, lamb and cheese tend to do the most climate damage. Pork, chicken and eggs are in the middle. Plants of all kinds typically have the lowest impact.

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What you eat matters a lot more than whether it’s local or organic, or what kind of bag you use to carry it home from the store.

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You don’t have to give up meat altogether to make a difference. Even small shifts, like eating less meat and more plants, or switching from beef to chicken, can reduce your climate footprint.

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Waste less. Buying what you need and actually eating it — instead of tossing it out — means that the energy used to produce your food has been spent efficiently.

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