Avoiding meat and dairy is 'single biggest way' to reduce your impact on Earth

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Biggest analysis to date reveals huge footprint of livestock - it provides just 18 per cent of calories but takes up 83 per cent of farmland

Avoiding meat and dairy products is the single biggest way to reduce your environmental impact on the planet, according to the scientists behind the most comprehensive analysis to date of the damage farming...

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