Dropping red meat from one meal a week could slash emissions eight per cent, study shows

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Encouraging UK consumers to swap red meat for plant-based alternatives for just one additional meal a week could slash the UK's emissions by more than eight per cent, a new analysis has found

UK greenhouse gas emissions could be cut by more than eight per cent if everyone in the UK swapped one red meat meal for a plant-based meal each week, a new analysis has found. The switch would slash...

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