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Concept
Low-carbon diet
Summary
A low-carbon diet is a diet with low greenhouse gas emissions. Choosing a low carbon diet is one facet of developing sustainable diets which increase the long-term sustainability of humanity.
It is estimated that the food system is responsible for a quarter to a third of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. Major tenets of a low-carbon diet include eating a plant-based diet, and in particular little or no beef and dairy.
A 2014 study into the real-life diets of British people estimated their greenhouse gas footprints in terms of kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalent per day:
7.19 for high meat-eaters (≥100 g/day)
5.63 for medium meat-eaters (50–99 g/day)
4.67 for low meat-eaters (
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