My FOODprint

Explore the impact of your diet on the environment and find the FOODprint of some of your choices. Includes ecological footprint stats (land use, water usage, CO2).

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The Impact

View the physical impact that one of your diet choices makes on the environment!

Your diet choice uses about ----L of water every year. That's enough to fill -- glasses of water.

Your diet choice also uses about --- metres squared of land to produce every year. The same as -- football fields.

Additionally, your diet choice produces ---kg of carbon every year. Equal to burning --kg of coal.

No matter what choices we make when it comes to our diet, humans will always have a sizeable impact on the environment. However, choosing a proper and sustainable diet can limit your ecological footprint. In a study from the University of Oxford, it was discovered that a vegan diet can lead to a: 49 percent reduction in GHG emissions, a 76 percent reduction in land use, and a 19 percent reduction reduction in fresh water usage.

Altering one's diet is a process, but in terms of enviromental benefit, as well as moral and physical, cutting meat is one of the most beneficial and easy life changes one can make.

The How

So, how does eating animal products directly impact the climate crisis?

Food production will always have a sizable environmental impact, however, making proper decisions can limit that. Compared to a vegan/vegetarian diet:

The raising of livestock produces vast amounts of methane and other GHGs, about 15% of human-induced emissions worldwide.
Additionally, cattle production takes up significantly more land than plant production, leading to deforestation and animal extinction.
Furthermore, an animal-based diet uses much more water than a plant-based diet, with about one pound of animal protein requiring 100x the amount of water needed to produce one pound of grain protein.

Eating meat and animal products also comes with moral and health consequences. Consuming a living creature just for taste or out of habit can not be rationalized when a conscious animal’s life is taken without consent. On top of this, most animals, locally farmed or not, are subject to pain, anxiety, and fear like any of us humans would experience facing inevitable death. Eating animal products can also contribute to heart disease, cancer, diabetes in humans, and helps create antibiotic-immune superbugs from livestock.

That's a lot. Click continue to learn how you can make a change.