Carbon footprint

It’s no secret that everybody has their own carbon footprint. That is how much Carbon our lifestyle produces. C02 and Methane are two of the largest contributors to Climate change and global warming.

As the global temperature rises, life on our planet changes dramatically (and spoiler alert not for the better). David Attenborough has released a documentary on Netflix called “A life on our planet” That would highly recommend you watch, it’s entertaining and gives us hope for how we can prolong our life on this planet.

By far the biggest impact you can have on climate change as an individual is to simply reduce your meat and animal product consumption. And while going full vegan may not be possible for some of even the sole answer to climate change, it can have one hell of an impact.

As an extreme example if everyone in the world adopted a plant based diet, the world’s food-related emissions would drop by 70% by 2050 according to a recent report on food and climate in the journal Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The study’s authors from Oxford University put the annual economic value of these emissions savings at around £440 billion.

We know that Western diets are linked to many health problems including heart disease, diabetes and obesity. In 2015, the World Health Organisation went so far as to categorise processed meat as “carcinogenic”, along with asbestos, alcohol and arsenic.

So why not try and have just a few days a week where you avoid animal products – the impact you’ll have on your health and the planet will be amazing. Be sure to check out our social media pages this weekend for another tasty vegan recipe!