beef Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 12 Oct 2018 21:08:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 The Climate Change Friendly Diet: Less Beef https://www.greenoptimistic.com/the-climate-change-friendly-diet-less-beef-20181012/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/the-climate-change-friendly-diet-less-beef-20181012/#respond Fri, 12 Oct 2018 21:08:22 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=67392 It’s not new news: eating beef is not the most environmentally responsible dietary choice. In fact, reducing or eliminating beef from your diet altogether can be the most powerful individual choice you make to combat climate change. Ballpark figures place the carbon footprint of the entire food industry at around 30% of the world’s total […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/the-climate-change-friendly-diet-less-beef-20181012/feed/ 0 67392 Cutting Down on Beef Consumption Brings Multiple Environmental Benefits https://www.greenoptimistic.com/cutting-beef-consumption-brings-multiple-environmental-benefits-20140723/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/cutting-beef-consumption-brings-multiple-environmental-benefits-20140723/#respond Wed, 23 Jul 2014 06:57:11 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=48650 If you would really like to do something about lowering emissions and your carbon footprint, but you cannot yet bring yourself to switch to renewables, then go vegetarian. And if going ‘cold turkey’ is too difficult for you, you can at least cut down on beef. Scientists proved statistically that its production has the biggest and […]

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