Thread by @Telegraph

Prince Charles has revealed that he cuts down on meat and dairy to help the environment🍗

But is it based in Science?

And how much should you really eat when trying to balance your body’s needs against the health of the planet?

Thread 🧵🔻
telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness…

🌍Here’s what we know for sure: the way we currently eat poses a major problem for the future of the planet.

At the moment, food production is responsible for more than a quarter of all man-made emissions, around 13.7 gigatonnes each year

🥛Meat and dairy accounts for 14.5% of greenhouse gas emissions.

That’s the same as all of the world’s cars, HGVs, aircraft and ships

🍔Even if you buy the most ethical organic beef, it will be responsible for six times more greenhouse gases than had you chosen the equivalent quantity of a plant-based protein

❓Do you restrict your diet?

In 2019, leading scientists attempted to design a diet that would balance the planet’s needs against our nutritional ones, with rules including:

🐟2 portions of fish a week
🥩Red meat limited to weekly burger of monthly steak

It’s not just meat consumption that has consequences for your carbon footprint.

Lamb and beef are the highest emitting foods by a long way..

🧀But cheese ranks third, generating 13.5kg of carbon dioxide equivalent per kg consumed

It makes a difference to our health too.

➡️The WHO has long classified processed meat as carcinogenic.

➡️The 2020 Lancet Countdown on health and climate change found that our overeating of red meat is causing almost a million deaths every year

So is it time we all took a leaf out of Charles’s book and gave peas a chance?

Read the essential details here🔻
telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness…