Low Impact

There are diets which restrict your fats, and diets that restrict your carbohydrates. But how about a diet that restricts your carbon dioxide emissions?

As westerners we can cut back on a lot of our consumption, but food is a necessity! Nonetheless, we can still reduce the environmental impact that our diet has on the planet - we don’t have to reduce the amount we eat, but rather, pay more attention to what we eat.

There are a few key things to look out for, next time you’re doing the groceries. By selecting carefully, you can choose foods that result in less damage to the environment, and less carbon dioxide being emitted and contributing to… Continue reading

News.com.au had an interesting story today, titled “Eat a steak, warm the planet“. It discusses a new study that backs up the fact that, other things being equal, a diet involving meat is more damaging to the environment than a vegetarian diet.

There’s a couple of reasons for this. One is the fact that cows, like many other farm animals, release a lot of methane from digesting all that grass. Not only is this a good reason not to invite them to a party, but methane turns out to be 30 times as bad as CO2 in terms of its greenhouse gas potential. The other reason is efficiency.

Its obvious when you think about it, but there are big losses when producing a kilo of meat… Continue reading