Plant BasedTaskforce: Resources

Climate change is affecting our food, and our food is affecting the climate.

Reducing your meat and dairy consumption, even by a little, can have big impacts. If everyone in the U.S. ate no meat or cheese just one day a week, it would have the same environmental impact as taking 7.6 million cars off the road.

Transitioning to a plant-based food system could pause the increase of greenhouse gas emissions for 30 years and is considered a key solution in addressing climate change.

Our vital ocean ecosystems face an existential threat: the commercial fishing industry.

Animal agriculture is a significant driver of biodiversity loss, with agriculture alone being the identified threat to 24,000 of the 28,000 (86%) species at risk of extinction.

If high income nations switch to plant-based diets, they would cut greenhouse gas emission and sequester almost 100 billion tons of CO2 by 2100– provided the land formerly used to farm animals was reverted to its natural state.

Grass-fed cattle may have a slightly longer life, better diet, and more space but are still violently slaughtered.

While it’s certainly true that grass-fed cattle live significantly better lives than their feedlot counterparts, there’s still nothing cheery about their deaths.

Factory farming causes significant damage to rural communities, surrounding environments, and the farmed animals themselves.