"A U.N. report...found that a full 18% of global warming emissions come from raising chickens, turkeys, pigs, and other animals for food. That's about 40% more than all the cars, trucks, airplanes, and all other forms of transport combined (13%). It's also more than all the homes and offices in the world put together (8%)...Eating a plant-based diet is the single most effective thing you can do to reduce your carbon footprint."
"What made this project especially remarkable is that, among the many associations that are relevant to diet and disease, so many pointed to the same finding: people who ate the most animal-based foods got the most chronic disease. Even relatively small intakes of animal-based food were associated with adverse effects. People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease."
- T. Collin Campbell, Ph.D., writing on his highly-regarded project The China Study, which the New York Times called the "Grand Prix of Epidemiology."
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