Researchers have linked dietary data from over 55,000 individuals with data on the environmental impacts of the foods they eat. The team, from the Livestock, Environment and People (LEAP) project at the University of Oxford, found that the dietary impacts of vegans were around a third of those of high meat eaters. They also saw a 30% difference between high- and low-meat diets for most of the measures of environmental harm.
You do you. But it’s mostly for your health, rather than the environment.
Personally I don’t even eat a lot of meat. I just don’t enjoy vegetables, and I’m certainly not giving up cheese. That shit is awesome.